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Old 3rd Jul 2011, 8:07 am   #4
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Default Re: Is the mains 'earth' good enough?

Now that most houses have all the metal bonded together it is quite good, a good external earth can reduce noise a bit as can using a balanced aerial (no earth). Some old plugs has a hole near the earth terminal just for this.