• In an electrical system, a ground loop or earth loop occurs when two points of a circuit are intended to have the same ground reference potential but instead...
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  • Ground loop may refer to: Ground loop (electricity), an unwanted electric current that flows in a conductor connecting two points inadvertently having...
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    classes floating ground ground constants ground loop (electricity) ground plane (radio antenna) ground wire (transmission line) isolated ground phantom circuit...
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    each unit of electricity used. Setup costs are higher than for other heating systems, due to the requirement of installing ground loops over large areas...
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    Precipitation (meteorology) Electrostatic discharge Triboelectric effect Ground loop (electricity) "This Is What Those Skinny Metal Rods Sticking Off Of A Plane...
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    Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter possessing an electric charge. Electricity is related to...
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    observations on atmospheric electricity. Lemonnier (1752) also reproduced Franklin's experiment with an aerial, but substituted the ground wire with some dust...
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    Michael Faraday. His method, still used today, is for electricity to be generated by the movement of a loop of wire, or Faraday disc, between the poles of a...
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    applications. Closed-loop geothermal systems are most suitable for large-scale commercial and industrial use, and can be used for electricity production, in...
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    An electricity meter, electric meter, electrical meter, energy meter, or kilowatt-hour meter is a device that measures the amount of electric energy consumed...
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    Alternating current electricity flows in a giant loop between the electrodes through the ground, radiating ELF waves, so the ground is part of the antenna...
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  • require particular grounding for operation, as well as to control static electricity and provide lightning protection. There are three main purposes for earthing:...
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  • Mains hum (redirect from Ground loop hum)
    120 Hz), since the heavy ground currents are from AC to DC power supplies that rectify the mains waveform. (See also ground loop.) In vacuum tube equipment...
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  • Grade of service – Graded-index fiber – Ground constants – Ground loopGround plane – Ground (electricity) – Groundwave – Guided ray – Gyrator Halftone...
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    Quantities SI electromagnetism units Single-phase electric power Static electricity Three-phase electric power Two-phase electric power Our first step in...
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    addition of the ground heating loop in the energy equation means that significantly more heat can be transferred to a building than if electricity alone had...
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    place an amount of pipe in a closed loop in the ground. They are also formed by drilling boreholes into the ground, either vertically or horizontally,...
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    loop design, an open 'fresh air' system or a combination: Closed loop system: Air from inside the home or structure is blown through a U-shaped loop of...
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    extract heat from ground temperatures of under 30 °C (86 °F), allowing them to be used at relatively shallow depths of a few meters. Electricity generation requires...
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  • In electronics, a virtual ground (or virtual earth) is a node of a circuit that is maintained at a steady reference potential, without being connected...
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    use of a DC test loop, to distinguish a legitimate variable load from (for example) a fallen tree, which would be a DC path to ground. Single-wire earth...
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    The Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) is a rapid transit system currently under construction in Melbourne, the capital of Victoria and second largest city of Australia...
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    replace the outlet with a Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) breaker outlet. Cheater plugs are also used to break ground loops in audio systems. This...
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    Securing Electricity for Eastern Border Development" (PDF), Myanmar Business Today Magazine: 6–8 "Mean Annual Air Temperature | MATT | Ground temperature...
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  • conversion to electricity aloft or at ground station, conversion to laser or microwave for power beaming to other aircraft or ground receivers. Energy...
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    operations on December 19, 1984. It generates electricity from one 1,190-megawatt Westinghouse four-loop pressurized water reactor and a General Electric...
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    Lightning (redirect from Storm electricity)
    within the atmosphere, with the second region sometimes occurring on the ground. Following the lightning, the regions become partially or wholly electrically...
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    capacitances). An electrical circuit is a network consisting of a closed loop, giving a return path for the current. Thus all circuits are networks, but...
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    he found that as the magnet used passed the loops of wire each half turn, it caused the flow of electricity to reverse, generating an alternating current...
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