Grounding


Many years ago I heard that it was sufficient to ground your equipment in the center screw of a wall socket?

Presently my G is run to a metal rail on balcony which is set in concrete.

Any recommendations on how to best ground ones equipment when living in an upper floor aptment?

Thanks all---R
roscoe50
Normally the ground on the AC outlet is fine.

If your system needs more than that, take it as an indication that the ground circuits in one or more components in the system are not set up ideally for best results.
cold water pipe in the place i live is plastic and so sewage. one way is to drop ground inside sewage such as drop it in toilet tub, but be careful not to do ya thing when there's thunder or you can loose ya things...
sewage and waste is much better conductor vs. water.
First, I'm not sure what it is that you are referring to that you want to connect to an external earth ground point. Are you talking about grounding the chassis of the equipment, which would normally be grounded anyway via the AC safety ground pin of the power plugs (assuming they are 3-prong plugs)? Or are you talking about connecting the signal grounds/circuit grounds of the system to earth ground?

In either case, though, I agree with Ralph/Atmasphere that if your equipment is properly designed you are unlikely to be accomplishing anything constructive by adding extraneous ground connections. In addition, you would probably be introducing a code violation, and possibly serious safety hazards as well. See the upper part of page 8 of this paper.

Regards,
-- Al
Czarivey
"cold water pipe in the place i live is plastic and so
sewage. one way is to drop ground inside sewage such as drop
it in toilet tub, but be careful not to do ya thing when
there's thunder or you can loose ya things...
sewage and waste is much better conductor vs. water."

What? PLEASE nobody do any of this! Not sure if this is
for real, but don't do it...

What Ralph and Al said is correct.