The light switch in our bathroom bit the dust. In the process of swapping it out I discovered that the old switch was not grounded. There is a bundle of ground wires in the back of the plastic switch ...

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People often use these electrical terms interchangeably, but there’s a difference: A cable assembles two or more wires in a ...

RALEIGH, N.C. A corroded ground wire from 1979 forced electricity into the pool where a teenage lifeguard was shocked and killed in a North Raleigh neighborhood pool, according to an inspection report ...

I recently installed a new stereo head-unit in my car. One of the challenges with installing this head-unit was that a certain wire from the harness needed to be grounded, but only after the radio had ...

The unstable economy is causing people to take some drastic actions. And some incredibly dangerous ones as well. None more so than snipping the copper grounding wires off utility poles. The grounding ...

A pretty typical diagram for the grounding system for a house is shown here, along with a few of the current carrying conductors commonly called live and neutral. On the far left is the transformer ...