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> In my house the neutral is about 2-3V away from true earth. You seem quite blasé about his. Where I live the city comes out monthly to check the ground poin
by gumby 3y ago
> In my house the neutral is about 2-3V away from true earth.
You seem quite blasé about his. Where I live the city comes out monthly to check the ground point for our section of the street. I have seen them fiddle with it (salt it?) and at one point they moved it a few feet (notifying all the houses, digging up the steet slightly etc.
They really don't want any, well, potential problems.
- aaomidi 3y agoMONTHLY? That seems, fascinating?
- tnecniv 3y agoI have no reason to think this but that’d be great cover for a surveillance van checking tapes or something
- gumby 3y agoA legitimate possibility around here but the Zuckerberg family lives a few blocks away s I doubt there'd be much available sigint from here. I think it's more likely that Palo Alto Public Works is a little overstaffed, which TBH is fine by me.
- gumby 3y agoYesterday they came around checking every house’s water system for old lead pipes. They have already replaced everything to the meter and now they are checking the house side. I’m glad they are doing it but they must have a lot of free time. This morning’s news said that most the US still has lead pipes in the water distribution network (not counting houses themselves). Still surprises me that so many people are comfortable with private utilities.
- geophph 3y ago+1 for the pun
- actionfromafar 3y agoIs this a common thing to do in some countries or is your city an outlier? I have never seen anything like it in my tiny part of the world.
- gumby 3y agoI don’t know but Palo Alto takes a lot of its infrastructure seriously. Also the city operates its own utilities — 25 years ago it sold off the tv cable and service deteriorated so there is little interest in privatizing the rest.