Ground Rod Explained

What is a ground rod used for? what does it connect to. Find out in this video.

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[EngineeringMindset]

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[ryanstubbs]

In 2 minutes, you just explained what would take Mike Holt 3 HOURS - and I understood you better. Nice work!

[lognum]

Electrical engineer here, I worked with electrical engineer colleagues who had way more experience than me and they actually thought the ground rod is for ground faults, I argued with them about this and they wouldn't even believe me and thought I was crazy lol. FYI, electricity takes ALL paths, not just the least resistance. What I mean about ALL paths is all parallel paths, however the path of least resistance is where most of the current will go to. Grounding and bonding are totally different things

[robertgaines-tulsa]

Electricity will dump most of the current on the path of least resistance. It will still trickle some of the current on the path of high resistance. It's like a voltage divider. Electricity will go wherever it can. It just will put different amounts of current on each path depending on the path's resistance.

[tihspidtherekciltilc]

I was working as an apprentice for a retired electrician that ran a power plant so he knew his craft well when a friend from the local electric company called because they couldn't figure out why people were getting shocked climbing out of the swimming pools on that particular street. These were newly built beach houses that all had swimming pools and all met code with every stage inspected by another retired electrician that knew his craft. The problem was all these houses had two 200 amp panels with constant high loads during the day and the street was fed from one phase. I can't explain the hows and whys as I'm not a licensed electrician but when the power company ran another phase and kept the loads as balanced as they could the problem went away. Apologies for the book.

[arttujarvinen]

I think it's important to explain the differences between a TN, TT and IT grounding system in a video like this

[tedlahm]

Paul: As usual clear concise information. You have taught me very much over the three (3) years, INCLUDING this information in previous lessons. Once again, Thank you.

[edmondlau]

For the minds like mine that aren’t scientific, concepts like this are extremely complicated. Huge shout out of appreciation to those of you who are STEM.

[jessenester]

I second the motion! Nice job on explaining the practical application of a ground rod. True that so many uneducated individuals falsely think it provides and kind of protection against ground faults.Neutral bonding so that electrical currents can get back to the source is the proper means of clearing a fault by allowing the short to trip a breaker.

[antonarasanastasopoulos]

I've seen all your videos and all of them are so educational..make a video about grounding a house or a building ...the difference on grounding systems etc..great great job for those videos man. 🔌🔌

[ehqzzvo]

Great simple understanding, Thank you!

[theforcefor]

Allways to the point, thank you for your work :)

[bodhiforest]

This channel is brilliant ! thank you for your hard work and help, I am currently binging them all

[rokiedecentra]

This always confused me, this was genuinely useful!

[boltonky]

Always clear knowledge and interestingly ground rods just can't be placed anywhere and using more than one changes the resistance but some people already knew that

[joshuadelisle]

What about using a ground rod to take away high frequency noise. For example using one to protect the driving electronics of a CNC plasma table from the HF of the plasma torch?

[shamrockshore]

This diagram depicts a TNCS system (Terra Neutral Combined Separate Supply), and the main reason for the ground rod, is to prevent injury when there's a loss of neutral between the meter and supply transformer.

[linggiman]

you are the best channel for electrical power system graduates

[AuDap]

Dear author! Thank's a lot for this video! Good luck to you!

[IseeSpiders]

This is true for the grounding system pictured (TNCS?), but I think for a TT earthed system it IS the fault path. Restiance is still high which is why residual current/ground fault circuit breakers are needed.