Had a bit of home improvement done a bit ago. My brother installed a hook to hang a light from over the washing machine, so that I can see into it when changing laundry loads.
Also learned that three-prong to two-prong power adapters are not safe because they remove the safety added by a grounded outlet. This was on the dehumidifier left behind by the previous owners, who were dangerously ignorant when it came to electrical safety.
@zauberin I recall some models of 3-to-2-prong adapters offering a ring connector to an external ground--I had to use those in an old house because the landlord installed 3-prong outlets with the ground line open(!!) on half of it
Is this not usually the case anymore? I can only assume it wasn't properly hooked up even if it was
@zauberin uuuuuggggh what is it with these people and a lack of any sense of electrifal safety
@elfi Well, these people seemed to have especially bad judgement
bigots, fraud
@elfi plus they were white supremacist trump-supporting NRA members, and borrowed $8,000 from one of the neighbors and then refused to pay it back.
So yeah, they were total shitheads :-/
@elfi Taking a look at it, it does have a metal bit sticking on on the bottom, which I guess is the connector. And no, it wasn't hooked up.
Also, prior to moving in, one of our conditions for buying the house was to replace the existing outlets with grounded ones. They installed them without hooking up the grounding wires, and we had to hire someone to come in and fix both the outlets -and- the house's wiring.