Main > Main Forum

Static Electricity

Pages: << < (4/5) > >>

rdagger:


--- Quote from: Tailgunner on November 04, 2004, 01:43:43 am ---How old is your house? The majority were I lived in Cali (Ventura) were pretty old and all of the ones I lived in had ground issues with the outlets. Usually I'd find the outlets had been replaced with three prong outlets, but the ground wasn't hooked up to anything.

--- End quote ---

My house was built in 32, but the electric is all new wire and is in the original solid steel conduit with a main house ground to the cold water pipe and to a 6 foot buried copper stake.  I think the static shocks are a result of the weather and the carpet.   I suggested to my girlfriend that we should replace the carpet with hardwood floors.  She is upset because she has been asking for hardwood floors for a long time and it takes an arcade game problem to motivate me.

Tailgunner:


--- Quote from: rdagger on November 04, 2004, 05:45:44 pm ---My house was built in 32, but the electric is all new wire and is in the original solid steel conduit with a main house ground to the cold water pipe and to a 6 foot buried copper stake.  I think the static shocks are a result of the weather and the carpet.   I suggested to my girlfriend that we should replace the carpet with hardwood floors.  She is upset because she has been asking for hardwood floors for a long time and it takes an arcade game problem to motivate me.

--- End quote ---

Cool, my last house out there still had knob and tube wiring in places. (bare copper wire strung between  porcelan insulators)

Have you lifted the carpet anywhere in the house to check? Most older homes out that way already have hardwood floors, so you might get away with removing the carpeting and refinishing the existing flooring.

paigeoliver:


--- Quote from: danny_galaga on November 04, 2004, 08:53:02 am ---
--- Quote from: SOAPboy on November 04, 2004, 02:25:24 am ---
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on November 04, 2004, 02:21:45 am ---I have lived in like 15 places at least and I have never lived anywhere that has three prong outlets.

--- End quote ---


every place ive lived had em.. even this old raggy apt..



--- End quote ---

ah, but have you SEEN how many machines paige has? to house them he lives exclusively in castles, and we ALL know how antiquated castle wiring is  :)

--- End quote ---

I actually live in a two bedroom apartment. I have 14 games in here and it isn't even cramped.

Current layout has a big 4 player konami cabinet in my bedroom.

Gameroom has Super Neo 29 Candy, Stunt Cycle, Space Wars, Galaga mame, Multi-Williams, High Impact, Road Blasters and Sega Turbo

The combined living room kitchen area has Star Wars and STUN Runner cockpits, a Magical Touch countertop, a Gorf mame cocktail, and my 4 player Pong upright.

I also have a bunch of stuff in the basement.

I have a spot open in my bedroom for a Monaco GP mini as soon as I find one.  And I have two spots open in the kitchen living room area still. Well, those spots have stuff in them now, but it is unimportant stuff.

danny_galaga:

wow, you get an award for most dedicated cab nut!! i spose youve got a bartop on top of the toilet cistern  ;D

paigeoliver:

Nah, the only bartop I have is on the coffee table.

But along time ago before I had ANY Mame cabinets I had an industrial flatscreen touchscreen kiosk computer.  Which looked like an LCD panel on a pole with a little keyboard below it.

I had it set up in the bathroom for about a week until it dawned on me that I really DIDN'T want people sitting on the john operating a touchscreen!

Pages: << < (4/5) > >>

Go to full version