My outlet has no ground, any alternatives?

[Vengeance_K1ng]

My outlet has no ground, any alternatives to get ground?

[Josephdalepi]

My outlet has no ground, any alternatives to get ground?

fuck it

pull off a ground

to be honest, a power stip or ups would help a lot from there

by power strip, i mean one of the ones with a circuit breaker on it

[Cohacq]

It doesn't really matter. Just don't go fiddling in it with the power cable plugged in.

[FunkyFeatures]

An electrically "improper" power strip allows for a ground connector, but does absolutely nothing to ground it, only does it for compatibility.

We use them in IT, there is nothing wrong with them IMHO, but some people flip shit about not having ground connected. At home, the only place with ground is the kitchen.. I have run computers for 10 years without ground and never had one killed. We have a relay that'll take it (most likely) if anything happens

[pckid]

Or you could get a grounded outlet for $2.

[Vengeance_K1ng]

An electrically "improper" power strip allows for a ground connector, but does absolutely nothing to ground it, only does it for compatibility.

We use them in IT, there is nothing wrong with them IMHO, but some people flip shit about not having ground connected. At home, the only place with ground is the kitchen.. I have run computers for 10 years without ground and never had one killed. We have a relay that'll take it (most likely) if anything happens

Would a UPS add another layer of protection?

[Vengeance_K1ng]

Or you could get a grounded outlet for $2.

I have no ground wire

[Vengeance_K1ng]

An electrically "improper" power strip allows for a ground connector, but does absolutely nothing to ground it, only does it for compatibility.

We use them in IT, there is nothing wrong with them IMHO, but some people flip shit about not having ground connected. At home, the only place with ground is the kitchen.. I have run computers for 10 years without ground and never had one killed. We have a relay that'll take it (most likely) if anything happens

What about surge protection? Is that provided by a ups?

[FunkyFeatures]

What about surge protection? Is that provided by a ups?

No clue, I know nothing about UPS's. All I know is that our personal relay will be able to take surges before anything happens to the outlets

[DaltonM]

I have no ground wire

http://www.wikihow.com/Ground-an-Outlet

 

You're gonna need to get some, you can get some cheap from Talley Communications probably. 

 

If you work with audio especially you're going to want grounded outlets.

 

also you could do Like I do and run a 100ft extension cord from 2 floors above you lol. 

[pckid]

I have no ground wire

You could get a cheater plug.

[Vengeance_K1ng]

You could get a cheater plug.

Please specify

[pckid]

Please specify

In case you didn't know what google was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheater_plug

[Prolly_dyin]

If you need a grounded outlet and you're stuck with a house wired with 12/2 you're pretty well stuck running a ground.

 

You could luck out if you have some mechanical skills, every once in a while electricians or homeowners would run 12/2wg and cut the ground back in the box or ground the box or something else stupid. If that's the case you can try to pull whatever is left of the ground, enough to get a jumper on it.

 

More than likely though you'll be stuck pulling a ground to the box. Like I saw in a previous post, you can run your ground to copper or galvanized water lines using a grounding clamp. In my area that is starting to be frowned upon by our electrical inspectors; However, electricians have been doing this for years. The proper way would be to just pull a new ground back to the breaker box of course.

 

This all being said, The main reason outlets in your home are grounded is not to protect your electronics you have plugged into them. The main reason they are is to protect from damaged circuits and to keep you from electrocuting yourself on a bad circuit or starting a fire. A ground is just an additional more direct path to the neutral bar and ultimately ground rod. That way if anything is broken in a circuit it will send the power strait to the ground(as in dirt  ) kicking the breaker or blowing the fuse instead of causing a fire or shocking the crap out of you. 

 

I've seen pretty close to the same amount of grounded circuits be hit by power surges or get dirty power for some reason than non-grounded.