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Hmm okay starting to make more sense now. Do you know a good visual explanation that shows the "path" electricity takes from the transformer to your home and ba
by shreddish 7y ago
Hmm okay starting to make more sense now. Do you know a good visual explanation that shows the "path" electricity takes from the transformer to your home and back out to the ground rod. Note: I fully understand in AC the electrons aren't actually moving along this path. But I guess I don't see how the circuit is ever "complete" or a circle.
- NobodyNada 7y agoIt doesn't go "back out to the ground rod," it goes back to the transformer. Note this paragraph in the parent comment: > And it's not that charge carriers are always flowing back to earth, but back to their source. That's why ground is sometimes called a "return path." To move a charge carrier, you need to give it potential. It will lose that potential and return to the point of lowest potential difference from its origin - which is its origin.
- ishigoemon 7y agoThis video has a great visual explanation of grounding, imho. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-W42tk-fWc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-W42tk-fWc
- shreddish 7y agoThis was exactly what I was looking for thank you!