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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.micro
Subject: Re: faulty outlets/extension cord, overrated dimmer
Message-ID: <277@terak.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 19:00:42 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 21 19:00:42 1985
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Organization: Terak Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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> > WARNING: The "Electripak" brand of multiple outlet center (an extension
> > cord with 6 outlets, switch & circuit breaker, commonly used with micros)
> > has loose wires!!!!!
>
> I opened mine up last night. All the wires are pushed in the holes
> firmly, BUT the middle duplex outlet was the only one that was connected
> to the green wire from the power cord. The result was that only two
> out of the six outlets in the power strip had their third holes grounded.

We checked two that we have here.  The ground to the other two duplex
outlets is supposed to be via the outlet mounting screws and the
metal case.  Unfortunately, the outlet mounting screws on ours were
not tightened down enough for the lock washers to cut through the
paint on the case.  We fixed that!
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Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug