Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

TechAngel_00 wrote:Solid wire in a standard receptacle backstab is a bad idea. The spring clips are designed for stranded. Use the screw terminals or switch to 16awg stranded. Also, your surge protector likely has a MOV that clamps at 330V. That's not grounding. It's protection. Different thing. Measure continuity between the ground pin and a

OK so first off - YES I know about the MOV and the spring clips and the stranded vs solid and all of that engineering stuff that nobody asked about because HERE IS THE REAL QUESTION THAT I AM DYING TO KNOW and nobody has touched it with a ten foot pole:

WHO HERE HAS ACTUALLY TESTED GROUND CONTINUITY WITH A PROPER EARTH ROD???

Like, I get it, we're all measuring volts and ohms and talking about fall-of-potential tests and rebar grids and Sainsbury's loading docks but at the END OF THE DAY - if you plug your cheese receipt shrine (or your Fluke or your laptop or whatever) into a wall outlet, does the ground pin actually connect to REAL EARTH or does it just connect to the neutral bus in your breaker panel which connects to... nothing?

MamaBear_2006 keeps posting about her Fluke 87V and her "real socket photo" but has anyone here confirmed that the ground pin in their house actually goes to a ground rod driven into the actual dirt??? My dad replaced our electrical panel last year and the electrician told him the ground wire goes to a copper rod sticking out of our backyard and I'm pretty sure that counts as "earth" but apparently ClassOf04_Truther thinks 0.41V vs 0.47V is a hill to die on

AND DON'T GIVE ME THE "it's a commercial building" excuse because Sainsbury's is a COMMERCIAL BUILDING TOO and they've got their own ground rods (or do they??? has anyone called Sainsbury's security about that yet???)

So here is my BLUNT QUESTION for everyone in this thread who keeps arguing about voltage drops and waveform signatures and spreadsheet columns:

DID YOU DRIVE A GROUND ROD OR DID YOU JUST TRUST THE WALL OUTLET???

Because if we're all measuring ground-to-neutral voltage but our "ground" is actually just a neutral bond at the panel then we're not measuring the grid frequency, we're measuring the voltage drop across the neutral conductor in our house wiring and that is NOT the same thing even if it happens to be 0.47V sometimes

Also - ScribeOfTheGrid - I know you're lurking - row 48 sheet 3 column K still says "temp sensor calibration pending" which is CLEARLY the Euclid socket address so maybe sit this one out

But seriously someone please tell me if you drove a rod or if we're all just hoping the drywall outlet is grounded to actual earth

^ this

^ this

1. MamaBear_2006's Fluke 87V promise remains unfulfilled for the third consecutive "this weekend." Correctly filed under sub-category 3B: Unverified Claims.

2. No continuity measurements to earth ground have been documented in this thread. Only voltage drops between neutral and ground are being cited. This is not grounding. This is a voltage divider.

Respectfully, LMP

what setting is the meter on when you get 0.47v ac or dc

1. MamaBear_2006's Fluke 87V promise remains unfulfilled for the third consecutive "this weekend." Correctly filed under sub-category 3B: Unverified Claims.

2. No continuity measurements to earth ground have been documented. Only voltage drops between neutral and ground are being cited. This is not grounding. This is a voltage divider.

Respectfully, LMP

Did anyone actually test the ground pin with a real rod or are we still guessing

TwinPeaks_59 wrote:Did anyone actually test the ground pin with a real rod or are we still guessing

My walkie multimetro say 0.00 but GREEN glow still happen every 1:47 AM for 48 nights. If ground is just voltage divider not real earth, how we measure miracle that no meter can catch fiquem com Deus

^ this BestBuddyStar ground continuity is where the rubber meets the road

1. MamaBear_2006's Fluke 87V promise remains unfulfilled for the third consecutive "this weekend." Correctly filed under sub-category 3B: Unverified Claims.

GuardiaoDaNoite six months same photo flip the walkie over gray is greenish now??

TwinPeaks_59 wrote:Did anyone actually test the ground pin with a real rod or are we still guessing

1. No earth ground continuity tests documented in this thread.
2. Voltage divider ≠ grounding.

Respectfully, LMP

GuardiaoDaNoite green glow at 0.00 means you measured open circuit does the walkie actually boot

1. MamaBear_2006's Fluke 87V promise remains unfulfilled for the third consecutive "this weekend." Correctly filed under sub-category 3B: Unverified Claims.

2. No continuity measurements to earth ground have been documented in this thread. Only voltage drops between neutral and ground are being cited. This is not grounding. This is a voltage divider.

Respectfully, LMP

GuardiaoDaNoite wrote:My walkie multimetro say 0.00 but GREEN glow still happen every 1:47 AM for 48 nights. If ground is just voltage divider not real earth, how we measure miracle that no meter can catch fiquem com Deus

open circuit on the probe tip