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Originally Posted by griffin8r
It's a big deal if you're intending to connect sensitive equipment to them.
As to how expensive it is to fix? Shouldn't be that bad. Electrician kills power to that room, pulls the outlets out of the wall, ties 10-2 to the old 10-1 wire, pulls it through to the fuse box (hopefully it wasn't stapled to the wall studs) and wires it up. He puts in new outlets on the other end and bam, he's done. For 6 outlets, depending on situation variables, you're looking at a day or two worth of work.
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10-2?
What are you planning on powering there? An electric dryer?
#10 wire-30 amps
#12 wire-20 amps
#14 wire-15 amps.....
And he probably already has 12-2.
No ground is bad. But not the end of the world. Unless you are coming from a sub-panel, the neutral (white) in the circuit is tied to the ground in the panel. Without a ground, you don't have a secondary path to ground to shunt naughty power surges that overload the capacitor in your power strip.
Add a level of protection by using a stand-by power supply/backup battery.
Let it isolate your equipment from the wall. Not perfect, but one step closer to protection. Not so much from losing power, but more importantly from isolating the power going directly to your equipment.
But if you got the bucks, have them run you a new line.