Earthing in TV

Temporarily disconnect computer and ground cable. Measure AC current from audio ground to that new safety ground wire. Current should be on the order of less than 1 milliamp. Unlike the experiment with safety ground wire, this test actually reports something useful.

Of course that grounding cable will eliminate voltage. Wire eliminating voltage tells us nothing useful. But is that voltage created by a leakage that is too large or by a leakage that is acceptable? You still have not answered a question that determines whether a threat to computer, et al exists.

If your meter does not have an AC amperage option, then connect audio ground to safety ground via a 10K ohm resistor. If the leakage is 150 microamps, then AC voltage across that resistor will be 1.5 volts. If the voltage is less, then the leakage (and need for safety ground wire) is irrelevant. If voltage across resistors is more, than your TV may be a threat to computer and human life.

If leakage is less than 150 uamps, then even a wire about the size of a human hair would have been sufficient to ground out the leakage.

Aga> Here's what I did: Connected TV Signal earth to safety earth directly

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w_tom
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That's very common in Audio/Video equipment to prevent ground loops when devices are connected (which result in huming at mains frequency)

Not unheared of either. I had a satelite receiver that carried 80 V on its case compared to ground. It actually gave a tingling sensation when touched. No problems at all, if your house has a residual current device (RCD). If the current becomes so high as to be dangerous, the RCD flips and that's that.

Yes, the voltage should have so high an internal resistance that little current will flow. If you are worried, use an audio transformer.

You would get a ground loop with any grounded equipment connected to it.

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Dr Engelbert Buxbaum

Yep, I found it straight away when I Googled but for some reason Samsung's home page didn't bring it up. I wonder if they don't necessarily search all their global sites, although I don't recall seeing that option. Not sure why I said the bit about ashamed now, something was trolling through my tiny mind. No offence meant to you, it was being directed towards Samsung's site.

Cheers.

Ken

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Ken Taylor

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