Stagehand 101: Leakage Current and Stray Voltage
What happens if the ground is broken and there's leakage current?
Grounding (in Europe and other parts of the world it’s called “earthing”) is serious business. Any device that plugs in and has a metal chassis, like a guitar amplifier, has a power cable with a green wire or green with a yellow striped wire. That wire connects the grounding pin on the connector to the metal chassis. If that pin is missing or cut off, o…
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