Thread: I got a tough one. Electrical Guys Look

Meddler, I just checked and I still get a shock from touching the cable and something grounded. The meter shows 45V DC. I blame it on where I live.

Lawrence's post makes sense though. If don't have the monitor and PC grounded to the same thing, then something in the circuit will turn into a capacitor or even a fuse (pop).

Originally Posted by Curiosity

Ground loop is when two things are not using the same ground, and usually you can measure volts between the two grounds. I think? Someone help me out! I've actually been shocked and blown a home theater amp from the power between house ground and the cable TV shielding. That's about the only experience I've had with ground loops. I think it can be dangerous because if the two grounds aren't the same reference, then Vcc isn't what's expected either.

Thats nice and all but we arent talking about ground loops, we are talking about floating grounds

Originally Posted by Nav_Attack

ok. disclaimer: i'm not sober.
ok-that said:
i didnt see any questions/answer pointed to the question as to what is your vga powered from. 1) is it xenarc or lilli or other. 2) is it powered from opus or other?

p.s. apologize for non-sensicalness of this post.

I think you missed the point where i said that i think it is a power issue becasue of the fact that when i removed the wire everything works without skipping a beat

Originally Posted by antimatter

Thats nice and all but we arent talking about ground loops, we are talking about floating grounds

Oh yeah! OK, just go easy with the wet noodle.

curent is like water, if you restrict the drain ( ground ) the the sink will over flow.