Trinityred
@verizon.net
| Fios Grounding
I live in NY and just had a tech at my house to install a ground to my fios system that was installed 2 years ago. I wasn't home at the time, my wife was. When I went to my basement to see what they did, I noticed the ground that they use is actually some sort of plug that they plug into the nearest outlet and uses the ground off your electrical outlet. That's all fine and good, but one problem; my house was built in the 1920s and I have only changed over about 90% of the outlets in my house to grounded outlets. The other 10%? My basement. So with a glowing red light on the grounding plug that states theirs a problem with the ground the tech told my wife "its all good" and left.
Now Im a service tech for cctv/alarm systems, and I can honestly say that in every service driven business your going to have 3 types of installer; (a) the qualified professional installer (which are rare), (b) the badly trained tech that took the 2 hour course before getting to your house, (c) the tech that hates his job/life and just wants to get in and out of your house as quick as possible.
Now I'm not bashing fios techs only, from working in peoples houses Ive seen some really nasty stuff done by the cable guys and satellite guys also. My grounding problem I can fix myself. But for the rest of you; do your homework and buyer beware. |
