Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[[email protected]]

So, just so we're clear - However remote the chance of lighting is, earth grounding a portable genny and metal stages can help protect everybody on site, our gear, other folks gear, and even the talent... Is there a valid reason that one wouldn't want to insist on it?

[Jeff Bankston]

this is why i tried to give a simple easy to understand answer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_electricity

[Jeff Bankston]

Jeff,
There is no more to an earth ground than this.  All current leaving a source must return to it.

Since the earth itself is not the source of a generated AC or DC current it can not be the point to which that current returns. 
Only by bonding an earth ground to a neutral or other return path to the source can current flow back to the source thus making a complete circuit.   
The earth ground could be a part of the return to neutral, part of the path, but an earth ground can not be the destination of the electrons since they did not originate there. 

i never said the earth generated electricity

Furthermore, no matter what "they say" a generator or any electrical device, can not discharge current to an earth ground.  An earth ground is not a part of the safety of the generator except in the case of lightning strike or the very unlikely event of an incredible static discharge where the earth itself is a part of the circuit in question.

an internal/external or other hot leg coming in contact with the metal parts of the gen can cause electric shock to the operator.

[Mac Kerr]

We're done here.

Mac

[ProSoundWeb Community]