If you have an older home, you may want to make sure that your electrical outlets are grounded. Grounding refers to the wire that runs from an outlet into the earth, inherently protecting homeowners ...

A friend who was buying an older house was concerned about electrical safety and asked for my opinion as an electrical engineer. All of the AC receptacles (also called outlets) in the house were the ...

How old is your house? Unless it's really old (75 years?), the outlets are grounded.<BR><BR>In all modern wiring, one of the two prongs on the outlet is connected to ground back at the Circuit Breaker ...