Hey Jim!
All the voltage in the 120V AC used in home audio returns to ground via circuit and chassis ground. The two wires coming in, one is hot the other is ground. So even with just two wires your component is grounded.
This is the way all components were made for many years. Decades. Millions of homes in the USA are to this day still wired this way. Its both electrically and historically ignorant to try and say it is unsafe to disconnect a ground.
Sad to say that is the reality, millions of electrically historically ignorant people crowd the forums, so many they drown out the few who actually know what they’re talking about. Their irrational fraidy cat fear combines with their ignorance and that’s how you get the know it all whose name we won’t mention who told me I would kill myself and burn down my neighborhood if I tried to look inside my amp. Lethal even when unplugged.
Yeah. Right. Just like its unsafe to not have two grounds.
Which like I said, ignorance and irrational fear abounds. Now you know we have two grounds, the utility ground everything has plus the redundant earth ground they made us add. But that’s not enough. Nothing is ever enough when you’re irrational fear mongering. Now we need to also ground everything to the plumbing. Three grounds!
There always comes a point in every discussion of electricity where the common sense ends and Nervous Nancy and the Technobabbler’s take over. This is it. The end of the common sense. And now, without further ado, performing twenty five shows a day for endless nights only, our encore presentation of Nervous Nancy and the Technobabblers!
All the voltage in the 120V AC used in home audio returns to ground via circuit and chassis ground. The two wires coming in, one is hot the other is ground. So even with just two wires your component is grounded.
This is the way all components were made for many years. Decades. Millions of homes in the USA are to this day still wired this way. Its both electrically and historically ignorant to try and say it is unsafe to disconnect a ground.
Sad to say that is the reality, millions of electrically historically ignorant people crowd the forums, so many they drown out the few who actually know what they’re talking about. Their irrational fraidy cat fear combines with their ignorance and that’s how you get the know it all whose name we won’t mention who told me I would kill myself and burn down my neighborhood if I tried to look inside my amp. Lethal even when unplugged.
Yeah. Right. Just like its unsafe to not have two grounds.
Which like I said, ignorance and irrational fear abounds. Now you know we have two grounds, the utility ground everything has plus the redundant earth ground they made us add. But that’s not enough. Nothing is ever enough when you’re irrational fear mongering. Now we need to also ground everything to the plumbing. Three grounds!
There always comes a point in every discussion of electricity where the common sense ends and Nervous Nancy and the Technobabbler’s take over. This is it. The end of the common sense. And now, without further ado, performing twenty five shows a day for endless nights only, our encore presentation of Nervous Nancy and the Technobabblers!