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To: Dealer who wrote (28648)	8/12/2000 4:26:56 PM
From: RR	Respond to of 35685

No Dealer, because the neutral, or ground, is still connected throughout the electrical wiring. Consequently, even though you have thrown the main disconnect switch, the solid state stuff that is still plugged into the electrical outlet is still got a ground connection and a path to ground that a lightning spike can take to ground through that which is plugged up. That's why it is good to just pull it out of the wall and like I was telling Clappy, if it is a device that has an external ground wire as well going outside to a ground rod, then disconnect it, too. We use to not have this ground spike problem back in days of tubes before solid state parts. RR