Virtual ground connected to enclosure?

[R.G.]

Also known as "The tragedy of the commons."

I have been sadly remiss in award a coup-count on this one!

[tubegeek]

It isn't as much fun when you have to beg for it.

But I'll take it anyway - I have as little shame as the next guy.

[R.G.]

It isn't as much fun when you have to beg for it.

But I'll take it anyway - I have as little shame as the next guy.

But it really, really was good! 

[PRR]

> make +V red, GND black.......oh wait...that's already been done and it's still confusing!

I had a Real Bad Month when I repaired a radio-mixer and the factory had wired it Red=Minus Black=Plus.

> we're stuck with "ground"

Granted.... but it's still a bad word.

> that die-if-you-kiss-the-microphone thing

Are you standing on dirt? (Concrete on dirt?) THEN you wanna know where Earth Ground is.

In many-many zap-lip situations, the stage is non-conductive. The wall-outlet 3rd-pin may even be near dirt-potential, and the Neutral(*) may be close-enough. Or maybe the stage is on one neutral, the PA system on another. (Had that at work.) Just one ungrounded chassis, 2-pin plug, 3rd-pin cut-off, can throw enough leakage to sting.

(*)"Neutral" on a 120V circuit is another poor word, but I'll leave that fight to another day/lifetime.