From: Paul Koning 
  What happened is that the "grounds" were
offset enough, and with enough
 of a current supply, that the ground strap that's supposed to connect
 the row of RP06 drives melted.
 This sort of thing is a major electric code violation: you can certainly have
 multiple services, but all the grounds are required to be connected by
 substantial wire; you're not allowed to stick ground rods in at
 multiple places and leave it at that. 
I'm pretty blown away that the various grounds could be offset by that much,
to produce that kind of current when they were tied together. Wow.
        Noel