On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:21:47 +0000, Taylor Miller wrote:

I moved to Mexico last November, and I finally got my gear down here. It
seems that most houses down here are not built with a ground plug for the
electrical outlets. I'm in a newly constructed house, and that's the case
here. I started looking around, and indeed, they had never even put in a
ground rod where the power comes into the house.
[...snip]

It's the same situation here in Thailand. Almost nothing [fans, lights
etc] has an earth, and anything that does have one has it chopped off.
They even sell power boards with three holes, but no metal in the earht
pin hole! I found I was getting shocks anytime I tried to use my mic
connected to my computer at home. Like you, the apartment building I'm in
is new - that's just the way things are done here.

I got a quote to put in a spike and run an earth wire up to my apartment
[3rd floor] - about 3000 baht; just over a month's rent...