What is grounding and what does grounding mean? Here I answer what ground is, how it relates to your electrical outlet and the wiring in your appliances, how to get grounded for your high-voltage and other experiments, and about the ground symbol in electrical diagrams.

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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.

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The previous version of this video had an error that was too large to fix with an annotation. Therefore, the video was removed, fixed, enhanced and re-uploaded. The fault was a silly mistake on my part, with the fault going to ground, silly because I should have realized that was not what was happening as I knew the ground was connected to the neutral bar in the breaker panel. Thank you to everyone who brought this up in the comments on the previous version.

Thanks to Matthias Wandel (https://www.youtube.com/user/Matthiaswandel) for letting me photograph his breaker panel and to Todd Harrison (https://www.youtube.com/user/toddrharrison) for checking out this new version of the video before I released it.

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