{"id":39,"date":"2004-05-21T02:14:59","date_gmt":"2004-05-20T18:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2004\/05\/2004_05_21_0214.php"},"modified":"2004-05-21T02:14:59","modified_gmt":"2004-05-20T18:14:59","slug":"begin-the-grounding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/21\/begin-the-grounding","title":{"rendered":"Begin the grounding!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today it starts. I don&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s ass what the administration says, I&#8217;m sticking a ten-foot copper pole in the ground beside the unit which we live in! Not only that, I&#8217;m going to mess with our electrical system!<\/p>\n<!--more-->\n<p>&#8220;Creative Inspire 5.1&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Klipsch ProMedia 5.1&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;TipidPC&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well it&#8217;s not really me that&#8217;s going to do the work, but these electricians I hired. You see I&#8217;ve busted speakers 3 times already through no fault of my own.<\/p>\n<p>First was a set of <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.europe.creative.com\/products\/product.asp?prod=250\">Creative Inspires<\/a>, which I sold once I had it under warranty. Next were my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klipsch.com\/product\/product.aspx?cid=712\">Klipsches<\/a> &#8230; <em>TWICE!<\/em> 2nd time it got busted was out of warranty. So had it serviced with this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tipidpc.com\">TipidPC<\/a> memeber who was known to be an excellent repairman.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways to cut a long story short, I want to rule out power issues so I&#8217;m having my room&#8217;s electrical lines beefed up and have the whole house grounded. Honestly, it&#8217;s beyond me why this isnt a requirement in all households in the first place. But then again, this is the Philippines =)<\/p>\n<p>The electricians discovered a lot of politics involved in the construction of the house. One was ALL the wires were substandard, the airconditioners, heater, and refrigerator weren&#8217;t grounded, and weren&#8217;t on separate circuits. Basically this simply suggested that the contractor 1) wanted to save money on the materials and 2) was an idiot.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the service costed roughly about 600PHP <em>per socket<\/em> (without the materials) to rewire to the breaker. I had 4, and since my circuit was shared with my sister, and I wanted a separate circuit from the rest of the house, so I just allowed them to rewire even my sisters. The day ended with the wires replaced, but the ground not yet engaged. So they will return tomorrow to finish the job.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today it starts. I don&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s ass what the administration says, I&#8217;m sticking a ten-foot copper pole in the ground beside the unit which we live in! Not only that, I&#8217;m going to mess with our electrical system!<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[505,588,661,1181],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-grounding","tag-inspire","tag-klipsch","tag-tipidpc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}