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Grounding (also called earthing) refers to the practice of providing an un-energized path back to the main neutral. This is done to allow any electrical faults to flow into that circuit, instead of anyone touching the fault. Use with the [electrical] tag.
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What is a 'grounded neutral' and how bad is it?
Grounding has nothing to do with the failure of your appliance. … If your home was built in 1959 then it is possible that the grounding rod was never placed deep enough into the earth to provide proper grounding, or perhaps it rusted away over time. …
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Is this switch properly grounded?
Each switch should be grounded with bare copper wires coming from the green screws on the switches, to a bare copper wire screwed onto one of the wire clamp screws of the metal box, to the bare copper …
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Can I safely ground a light fixture if the ceiling box has two hot and one neutral wire (no ...
In this case you can simply run the green wire from the fan directly to a metal backing screw or grounding screw on the box itself and this will be sufficient to ground the fan. …
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Why does my computer have a ground fault only when a peripheral is attached?
You most likely have poor grounding to or from the breaker box in your home.
The first thing I would do is get myself one of these nifty devices. …
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