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In two cases the earth wire was left unconnected.

The cause was found to be an earth wire which snapped off in high winds and fell across high-voltage transmission lines at a substation.

Details of the paint type and colour can be found on the compliance plate which is attached to the firewall near the battery earth wire.

Fuses and Earth wire.

The internal arrangement of the terminals ensures that if the cable is pulled out of the plug, the earth wire breaks last.

Overhead power lines are often equipped with a ground conductor (shield wire or overhead earth wire).

Devices designed for use with water, such as clothes washers and heated toilet seats, often have a separate earth wire or earth ground pin.

The Earth Wire and Other Stories (1994)

The armouring is normally connected to earth and can sometimes be used as the circuit protective conductor ("earth wire") for the equipment supplied by cable.

The earth wire or ground connects cases of equipment to earth ground as a protection against faults (Electric Shock).

Most modern aquarium equipment no longer has an earth wire, but if it does, you must make sure you wire it into the earth terminal.

Use a similar hooked connection to attach the Earth wire and the wire leading from S1 to the solder tag.

In such an installation earth straps and yellow & green earth wires can be seen connected to pipework under sinks, in heating systems etc.

He believes that the E-cat is misconnected, and that the power attributed to fusion is supplied to the device through the earth wire.

Other changes were to negative earth wiring and alternator, chunckier boot lock handle, internal door latch handles, and quarter light window handles.

The Earth Wire & Other Stories, Joel Lane (Egerton Press)

Where copper pipe has been replaced by plastic or a plastic fitting used to join copper pipe, an earth wire must be fitted across the plastic.

Wrapped Fibre (WF), which involved a new technique of taking a variant of underground cable and wrapping it in a spiral fashion around the earth wire.

My father went along, took me with him, took me because I wasn't psychic, couldn't be affected by spirits; I was like an earth wire on a plug.'

If either of the earth wires become disconnected from the ELCB, it will no longer trip and the installation will often no longer be properly earthed.

The incoming earth wire connects to the lower busbar on the left side of the panel, which is in turn connected to the earth busbar at the top right.

I wish to rewire it, but I'm not sure how to do this as the wiring is in a bit of a mess, with earth wires all over the place, some not joined to anywhere.

Around 1994, new standards for the electrical couplings between carriages of United Kingdom passenger trains introduced the requirement for separate earth wires for critical functions such as brakes and doors.

One terminal goes to the installation earth CPC (circuit protective conductor, aka earth wire), and the other to the earth rod (or sometimes other type of earth connection).