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Tue 1 Aug, 2017 01:18 pm
Is there an electrical charge/current with in a grounding wire, off the main elec power of a home? If one touches it with their hands or foot touches it or holding a metal tool and that comes in contact, will one get zapped, electrocuted? I need to do digging in an area right at a grounding wire and its stake into the ground, and so wondering the safety of this. Thank you
The 'safety ground' wire of a home leading to a stake should have no voltage on it with respect to ground. That's by design.
@18rrElec,
Quote:Is there an electrical charge/current with in a grounding wire, off the main elec power of a home?
Sure there must be
Quote:If one touches it with their hands or foot touches it or holding a metal tool and that comes in contact, will one get zapped, electrocuted?
That could only happen if somehow it became disconnected from 'ground', or if it hadn't rained for 55 years
Quote:I need to do digging in an area right at a grounding wire and its stake into the ground, and so wondering the safety of this. Thank you
Ur welcome I think
@centrox,
centrox wrote:
The 'safety ground' wire of a home leading to a stake should have no voltage on it with respect to ground. That's by design.
Centrox has it right. I just wouldn't mess with the ground if possible.
@edgarblythe,
Quote:wouldn't mess with the ground...
Boy, Ed, y' can that ag'n
@18rrElec,
I'll also add that the ground wire often does not go just straight down into the ground. It should be attached to a LONG grounding rod that may go straight down or may go down and run perpendicular to the surface.
There should be no current on your ground, ever, but I would take care in digging around it so it isn't disturbed.
@tibbleinparadise,
Hey Tibble, that was a good'n And to 18rr: If you find a voltage on it, that means there's a current, you might have a short somewhere
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