Hello, fellow Tom's hardware forum members!
This is a big issue that I have been facing for a long time, I've always feared ESD and tried to find alternative ways to ground myself and my computers before working inside or when operating them.
Not a single human being here understands how important is grounding your receptacles, yet they complain why do their computer psus die out quickly, and I also noticed this but too late after killing two computers slowly through the pain of electrical interference and losing what equals a lifetime of hard earned money on those machines.
I just can't work inside those machines without the fear of frying them with ESD since grounding/earthing is non-existant in this building, I also can't use them without the fear and dread of impending doom, since grounding is necessary with the excellently stable and not so bumpy electricity as well as interference caused by the aforementioned fantastically stable and totally not shaky and unstable electricity in the region...
The apartment complex I live in is extremely neglected, there is no hope to get the parent company to do anything to fix my issue.
The issue is that the main circuit breaker of the apartment I live in is incorrectly installed.
All of my outlets are two-prong ungrounded outlets, there is no earth wire in any outlet casing.
But what really burns my blood and makes me pull my hair out is the fact that the circuit breaker of my apartment lacks a functional earth bus.
The bus is not connected like the neutral bus, it is left vacant and therefore couldn't be wired to any outlet to serve as a functional earth...
I called an electrician three years ago and he just kept trying to understand what kind of creature tried to wire this building up...
Now, I have the sufficient tools to at least try to fix the issue, but the problem is that Im not quite educated about alternative ways to earth my outlets...
What can I do to earth at least the outlet I use for my PC? I can't just use GCFI fault breakers since I require true grounding when working on the insides of those machines and when operating them to insure everything works in order.
What kind of electrical interference? I use a big-arse APC 2350 VA UPS to protect my PCs from blackouts, but it requires grounding to filter out electrical faults.
When I went to a 20 day LAN party with my friends, the building had grounding, and the anomalies that happen here with this failure of an electrical system don't manifest at all any shape and form when I was at the LAN party.
But somehow, it only manifests and causes mental instability to me when I return to my apartment. Notice how it only happens here, since it happened before going to the LAN party and when coming back from there.
The issues manifest as flickering with the monitors, alarms popping off everywhere in the fan controller, and of course the obvious LED flickering.
And no, it is not the UPS, this also happens when plugging the PC and monitor straight into the outlet without any surge protectors or extension cables.
Thank you very very much for reading this, I greatly appreciate your help, you will get me rid of many mental problems arising from the constant fear of burning out the rest of my computers and studio components..
This is a big issue that I have been facing for a long time, I've always feared ESD and tried to find alternative ways to ground myself and my computers before working inside or when operating them.
Not a single human being here understands how important is grounding your receptacles, yet they complain why do their computer psus die out quickly, and I also noticed this but too late after killing two computers slowly through the pain of electrical interference and losing what equals a lifetime of hard earned money on those machines.
I just can't work inside those machines without the fear of frying them with ESD since grounding/earthing is non-existant in this building, I also can't use them without the fear and dread of impending doom, since grounding is necessary with the excellently stable and not so bumpy electricity as well as interference caused by the aforementioned fantastically stable and totally not shaky and unstable electricity in the region...
The apartment complex I live in is extremely neglected, there is no hope to get the parent company to do anything to fix my issue.
The issue is that the main circuit breaker of the apartment I live in is incorrectly installed.
All of my outlets are two-prong ungrounded outlets, there is no earth wire in any outlet casing.
But what really burns my blood and makes me pull my hair out is the fact that the circuit breaker of my apartment lacks a functional earth bus.
The bus is not connected like the neutral bus, it is left vacant and therefore couldn't be wired to any outlet to serve as a functional earth...
I called an electrician three years ago and he just kept trying to understand what kind of creature tried to wire this building up...
Now, I have the sufficient tools to at least try to fix the issue, but the problem is that Im not quite educated about alternative ways to earth my outlets...
What can I do to earth at least the outlet I use for my PC? I can't just use GCFI fault breakers since I require true grounding when working on the insides of those machines and when operating them to insure everything works in order.
What kind of electrical interference? I use a big-arse APC 2350 VA UPS to protect my PCs from blackouts, but it requires grounding to filter out electrical faults.
When I went to a 20 day LAN party with my friends, the building had grounding, and the anomalies that happen here with this failure of an electrical system don't manifest at all any shape and form when I was at the LAN party.
But somehow, it only manifests and causes mental instability to me when I return to my apartment. Notice how it only happens here, since it happened before going to the LAN party and when coming back from there.
The issues manifest as flickering with the monitors, alarms popping off everywhere in the fan controller, and of course the obvious LED flickering.
And no, it is not the UPS, this also happens when plugging the PC and monitor straight into the outlet without any surge protectors or extension cables.
Thank you very very much for reading this, I greatly appreciate your help, you will get me rid of many mental problems arising from the constant fear of burning out the rest of my computers and studio components..