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napoleonherselfMy family lives in an old house where none of the outlets have the ground hole thingie. We are about to be shipping off an idiot-proofed laptop to them, and we would prefer to know that that laptop won't get borked by, say, a lightning strike. Mecha's saying they make adapters to turn a two-hole into a three-hole, and then we could plug a surge protector into the adapter and then the laptop and router into the surge protector. Only he says that since there's no ground, in the event of whatever it might try to dump the charge on the adapter, and then the adapter might explode.
Please advise on the best course of action to take in this matter.
A UPS is also being considered as a possibility (remote, as WE had trouble hooking the battery in ours up, so who knows if my family could do it), and similar requests for advice go along with that.
Kthx.
Please advise on the best course of action to take in this matter.
A UPS is also being considered as a possibility (remote, as WE had trouble hooking the battery in ours up, so who knows if my family could do it), and similar requests for advice go along with that.
Kthx.
