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I know that the answer is yes, I should, but outlets near the setup are not grounded (even though they look like they are) and I don't want to have wires running though my living room.

The real question is what are potential problems ? Occasional system reboots? Permanent damage to PSU? Permanent damage to other components?

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[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can confirm. Neighbors house had an attic fire with knob & tube wiring.

... Just like the stuff still in my place today. Eek! Landlord won't upgrade unless there is a problem. In my house, the breakers are all 20amp and that's a lot to run on, best guess, 70 year old wires.

Oh, and do not assume anything is wired as expected. Test after. I've found a couple plugs "upgraded" to 3-prong by jumping the load and ground together. That made for a fun firework show when my metal fan touched something metal. Even the landlord was impressed by that stupidity.

A cheaper solution is to take a copper wire and connect the ground screw of the socket to a water pipe. It does the job and is better than nothing.

[–] sploosh@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Note to anyone heeding this advice: it has to be a metal water pipe, no plastic.

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Second note, the metal pipe has to be continuously metal from at minimum where it enters the house, don't trust that if you see a metal water pipe (or drain pipe) that it's grounded.