If you have an older home, you may want to make sure that your electrical outlets are grounded. Grounding refers to the wire that runs from an outlet into the earth, inherently protecting homeowners ...

You don't need to be an electrician to understand the basics about how your home is wired. A general understanding of how cables and wires work is part of being a responsible homeowner, and our ...

Sometimes trying to measure electrical wires and cables in an old building is like trying to find a needle in a haystack, considering that they may be buried beneath a concrete floor or run through ...

All questions and answers are based on the 2011 NEC. Q. What are the grounding electrode requirements for a separately derived system, such as a transformer? [250.30(A)(4)] A. First of all, let’s ...

With the increasing frequency of natural disasters including earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires and storms with severe lightning, electric utilities worldwide have proactively ...

Ask six electrical engineers how to correctly ground and shield a measurement system, and you’ll likely get 12 different answers. Sound farfetched? I used to think so, but after talking to engineers ...