What is ground and what does it mean to do Earthing? Here I answer what ground is, how it relates to your wall socket and the wiring in your appliances, how to get grounds for your high voltage and other experiments, and about the ground symbol in electrical schematics.
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For a detailed video on grounding according to the NEC (US National Electrical Code) see Mike Holt's excellent Grounding - Safety Fundamentals (1 hour long) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpgAVE4UwFw.
See also:
Does Volts or Amps Kill You? Voltage, Current and Resistance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iKD7vuq-rY&list=PLFsZmHTZL-znMsTduihhoYU21XL-d3p3K
Portable Crystal Radio using Loop Antenna and Pizza Box
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iunAvz9PbN0&list=PLFsZmHTZL-zlSltC6ELZW9PK4ks7wgPRz
How to Read a Schematic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HZ-EQ8Hc8E&list=PLFsZmHTZL-znMsTduihhoYU21XL-d3p3K
The previous version of this video had an error in it that was too big to fix with an annotation, and so it was removed, fixed, enhanced and reuploaded. The error was a silly one on my part where I had the fault go to ground, silly because I should have realized that wasn't what happens since I knew about the ground being connected to the neutral bar in the breaker panel. A big thanks to all who brought it up in the comments to the previous version.
Thanks to Matthias Wandel (https://www.youtube.com/user/Matthiaswandel) for allowing me to photograph his breaker panel and thanks to Todd Harrison (https://www.youtube.com/user/toddrharrison) for checking over this new version of the video before I released it.
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