Grounding Question.

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Original poster: "Glen McGowan" <glen.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxx>

I'm building a TC from the attached schematic. From the looks of the 
drawing I'm double grounded. The secondary is grounded to the mains 
and earth. The NST's are all grounded via a shared grounding plate 
which is mains grounded.

http://hot-streamer.com/temp/480W.jpg

C1 and C2 are there to limit noise fed back into the house wiring 
(some of it at least). I understand that grounding the secondary to 
the grounding plate can produce lethal currents but is there any 
advantage to doing this?  This may be a rhetorical question. I assume 
the secondary would "choose" the earth ground before it reached the 
mains ground because earth would be the shortest distance. But 
according to the drawing the NST's HV and LV's are both using the 
mains ground as is the secondary (has a "choice" of using mains or earth).


I apologize if the post was hard to follow. I've scratched the same 
spot on my head for the past hour. It's starting to bleed.


-Glen.