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virtual ground is not true ground
nothing wrong with these
I'm not an electrical engineer, how much ground would you need to "ground" something. How much does compensation matter? Like does clay ground better than top soil?
>, how much ground would you need to "ground" something.
around 10 feet in the ground
where i grew up, it was 3 feet to meet county code but that whole county was a frickin bog.
which ground?
TT main earths are bad. If after it's installed the resistance is too high for you to pass you can dump bucket of water on it and suddenly it does. TNCS is far superior, TT systems have no place outside of the third world or rural areas.
Is it African or European soil?
Chinese
It depends on the application, and conditions of the soil.
It's more about connecting to the actual earth than it is the amount or type of dirt.
like a meter of copper rod in the ground
the ground works as a massive conductor leading back to the substation.
I leave my ground floating
you put a ground rod in it and measure resistance if it's above certain value say 15 ohm you put the next one 6 feet away and keep putting them and linking with one wire untill lowered enough.
to put it simple pics are memes
In electric grid, ground is actually just connected to neutral. It also happens that neutral is at various points connected to your soil, probably for some reasons like removing any DC voltage component which can occur naturally.
this joke doesn't even make sense if you say grounding instead earthing moron
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Guys, it's not about the soil.
It's about making an electrical connection directly with the planet, which happens to be soil.
Earth wires in your house and the neutral wire are connected to a star point right under the meter, which is connected to a stake driven into the ground.
The idea is to keep the potential difference of metal exteriors of appliances close to zero with respects to earth's electrical charge. So that means if the earth's charge is elevated, then everything connected to it also elevated, keeping the net difference between earth and appliance zero. That way you don't get zapped when touching your fridge. It also dissipates atmospheric charge build up from the grid, or shunts lightning discharges to ground.
so what if I put metal rod in a bucket, but sideways?
then you spill the dirt and achieved nothing
So if I elevated the voltage of the planet, would everyone get shocked as they touched any electrical appliance?
No but you might make the earths magnetic field slightly stronger or slightly weaker. The real reason we ground so we don’t disrupt the planet’s delicate magnetic field that is our only shield against cosmic radiation
Magnetic fields are generated by currents, not by electrostatic potentials.
>The real reason we ground so we don’t disrupt the planet’s delicate magnetic field that is our only shield against cosmic radiation
Yeah except that one time we nuked it to see what would happen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime
There's no circuit there, so current can't flow. That thing only raises the electric potential of a bunch of dirt.
wrong ac can flow via capacitive coupling
Well, yes, but it's an almost insignificant coupling at mains frequency.
wht if we just grounded all the electricity in the world?
Then we would have to move to space stations to not get shocked by the Earth.
Where does this 'earth' electricity go? Straight to the core?
It doesn't go anywhere. The current that flows is the Earth supplying electrons to the grounded equipment.
Back to the supply transformer through earth. This is the complete circuit. Current does not go to earth, it goes through it
why do I pay for electricity when I could just dig it up for free??
It works you just need a lot more ground than that.
What do you think airplanes do? Exactly that!
It's called a floating ground. They use it for cars