Rzyard, just read what Mac wrote last January, he knows what he's talking about but not to say Lawry doesn't, he knows too. Note Mac warns about making sure I don't forget and leave the PC ungrounded in the power strip after I've unplugged everything else for whatever reason.

If you read that entire thread you'll see my first choice was to buy a proper grounding device but the inexpensive ones are no longer available. I called around to several electronics supply places here and the cheapest one I found locally was over $150. I found one online for $75. The one I found a few years ago was only twenty bucks. Apparently few care about this or those would still be around.

This is yet another example of why we all need to be nerds when it comes to this stuff because PC's are not designed for our kind of work. We can't be a brain dead doofus walking around with our thumbs up our noses just doing stuff with no thought behind it. Those are the ones who keep winning the annual Darwin Awards.

Bob

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