Timeline for When a battery is your power source, what is ground?
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| Feb 15, 2011 at 4:52 | comment | added | Connor Wolf | @Agos - The potential is relative. Ground is an arbitrary designation. In a situation with split rails, as long as the voltage between the rails is fixed, the overall potential of the entire circuit can move up and down without any negative effects. | |
| Feb 14, 2011 at 23:58 | comment | added | Agos | @Robert wouldn't that put the ground at non-zero potential? Is that ok? | |
| Feb 14, 2011 at 16:38 | comment | added | Robert Deml | As a bonus, if you have 2 batteries in series, you can use the middle terminal as ground and have a positive and negative supply from the 2 other battery terminals. | |
| Feb 14, 2011 at 16:07 | vote | accept | QueueHammer | ||
| Feb 14, 2011 at 16:01 | history | answered | dragorn | CC BY-SA 2.5 |