Re: question about burglar alarm dispute (San Francisco Bay Area)

["Bob La Londe" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Matt Ion" <soundy106@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

> Driving a new grounding stake and connecting the block to it cleared
> things up, but apparently that sort of hands-on troubleshooting was beyond
> the thinking of all the younger, fresh-out-of-tech-college technicians
> they'd sent out previously.

Reminds me of when I had a cable modem installed in my old office.  The
installer put a nice pretty ground block on the outside of the building,
then punched a hole in my wall.  I went out and said, "There is a reason for
putting a ground block in you know."

He replied, "Yeah it protects the equipment inside."

"Yeah, it needs to be ground to work though."

Deer in headlights look.

LOL.  I called the cable company and made them come back out to drive a
ground rod and ground the block.