MOTM

I have a house from 1945 that is half 2-conductor wire and half 3. (The
whole house mechanicals tell a sad story of many years of idiots modifying
it, myself included.)

I am one of those people that replaced some of my 2-pronged outlets with
modern, three-pronged Leviton Decora plates both for the look and to avoid
using those gray grounding adapters.

I have a couple of those three-light testers of which you speak. If you
stick it in my "upgraded" outlets, it says that everythig is hunky-dory, but
everything I read now tells me that it is *not*. So even though that tester
may show proper grounding (I think it is grounding through the electrical
box and conduit rather than a proper wire), you really don't have a proper
situation.


Also, an electrician at work told us NEVER to serially connect power strips,
but we thought he was mad, and had him stoned out in the back lot. We buried
the body, made a pact, and no one has been the wiser these five years.

Now that Paul and Larry, two people I trust unquestionably on matters
electrical and electronic, are saying the same thing, and coupled with my
bad house wiring, I basically do not know what to do with my house at this
point. I've never noticed any hum, so I thought I was safe. Now, I'm
terrifed, and may just finish this email, turn off all the power in my
house, plant a graden, and live off the land. Goodes, here I come.





-----Original Message-----
A.W. Sperry CA-330A, carry wherever go I.  Size of a "three-prong
adapter",
it is.  Faults, three lights will show.

From Home Depot, you can buy.

You must do, there is no fry.