Is grounding necessary when running off of batteries?

[kilbeg diamond]

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Grounding electricity is it necessary off batteries

Hi all,
playing with fancy e textiles and I wish to run a current through it. I don’t want to use mains, or d cell batteries. Can you point me in the right direction what components I could use and also how to get away with any grounding as it’s just a small area to put a current through.
thank you.

 

[phinds]

This is all very vague. You want to apply voltage across a piece of textile? Grounding is NOT always necessary, it's just safer in general. You need to be more clear about EXACTLY what it is you are trying to do.

 

[DaveC426913]

This seems a frustatingly broad request. I'm not sure how likely you are to get a useful answer from such a vague description (though PF members constantly surprise me).

What research have you done to determine how things are done in the industry now? And how far along are you in your own concept to know what kind of voltage/current and complexity you will need?

Do you need grounding? Low voltage portable systems are often not grounded.

 

[Baluncore]

Welcome to PF.

It will depend on what your "fancy e textiles" really are.
Please supply a link to the product.

 

[DaveC426913]

(PF needs those little dot dot dots that tell you when someone else is in the middle of typing their own response...)

 

[DaveC426913]

Maybe this?

 

[Baluncore]

(PF needs those little dot dot dots that tell you when someone else is in the middle of typing their own response...)

Questions often spend several hours without a response, this one was different.

Economise on dots and time. Begin the conversation while the OP is still there. Keep your first response short, and ask for a specific refinement of the question.

 

[DaveC426913]

Begin the conversation while the OP is still there. Keep your first response short, and ask for a specific refinement of the question.

Like post 3?

 

[phinds]

Begin the conversation while the OP is still there.

Uh ... kinda hard to do when the OP only hung around for two minutes after posting.

 

[phinds]

Like post 3?

Or even better, post #2. Dave, we ALMOST caught him before he left the building.

 

[Baluncore]

Like post 3?

I think your first two paragraphs, were complex questions, requiring an essay answer. Your 20:20 hindsight is correct, the last paragraph was all that was needed.

I aim to criticise my response before posting, but I am human. Early criticism of the question is often unproductive. If the OP knew the question you wanted, the OP could have answered it themselves. Get the ball rolling, give it time, the correct question will often only appear later, when the OP begins to understand the game, after a few 24-hour cycles.

Sit next to the OP, looking at the topic together, not at the OP. If you help them, they will often believe you answered it for them.

Several short answers are often better than one long answer. If they are duplicates, that reinforces the issue. If they are different, the OP will select
the line of approach they feel most comfortable with.

"Catching an OP", has an analogy, in the difference between fly-fishing and dynamite-fishing. If the OP is not ready for your help, you need to release them, informed, empowered, and uninjured.