What does shorted to ground mean?

Answer 1

This is a short circuit. The current goes to ground before it reaches the object it is suppossed to power, i.e. light bulb, etc.

Answer 2

It means you have a positive electrical wire somewhere that may be hitting a part of your vehicle causing it to ground out or short out.If you have a battery and touch the positive and negative side together,you get sparks.(Do not try this) but thats what a short is.Your whole vehicle is the ground and a positive electrical wire is hitting a piece of metal body part somewhere.

Answer 3

It means that the electric circuit hot or positive side has somehow made direct contact with the ground or negative side of the electrical system. This would usually blow a fuse and cause whatever device has shorted out to be inoperative.

Answer 4

Electricity is always looking to go to ground. When it finds a "short cut way" to ground....instead of going thru the wire or circuit as you had intended.

Answer 5

The hot wire is touching or connected to the ground wire, or simply to some other ground. It isn't making the circuit--but is interrupted in a way that will still drain the battery. If this is in a car, you probably have the hot wire touching metal in the body of the car.

Answer 6

A circuit has two wires. one from the power source to the appliance; the other from the appliance back to the power source.

The wire going back is "ground".

When any material that conducts electricity contacts both wires between the power source and the appliance, almost all the power flows though it and almost no power goes to the appliance and back.

Answer 7

This is an electrical term to describe a short circuit

Answer 8

It means the negative (black) connection on the battery is loose or corroded or the connection to the frame or body is dirty, loose or corroded. The ground wire itself may be bad also. Good Luck.