Comment on Electricians of fediverse, should I have my selfhosting box grounded?
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Install GFCI plugs.
Buy a small, appropriately sized UPS.
Profit?
Comment on Electricians of fediverse, should I have my selfhosting box grounded?
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Install GFCI plugs.
Buy a small, appropriately sized UPS.
Profit?
xyguy@startrek.website 4 months ago
You are correct that this is technically in code and would protect against shock hazards in a neutral error situation but you also get the opportunity for the outlet to pop during the day when nobody is home and the battery to die.
We had a situation in our old house where someone who was technically correct but didn’t think it through had a gfci outlet upstream of the refrigerator outlet. Thankfully it popped while someone was home and we got everything corrected before we lost everything in the fridge.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
You food should expire that quickly. It would take at least a day or two.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
For sure, a fridge is a really bad one to be using on an actual ungrounded GFCI, exactly for the reason of risk of expired food.
I like my homeserver but if something trips and its offline for a while it’s not gonna ruin my day.