Having problems with your process controls and electrical instrumentation? The source may be a grounding disturbance known as a ground loop. According to the ANSI/ IEEE Standard Dictionary of ...

Successful shield grounding cannot be divorced from the issue of good signal grounding; they go hand-in-hand. Thus both subjects will be treated as a combined topic in Part 2 of this series.

Ask six electrical engineers how to correctly ground and shield a measurement system, and you’ll likely get 12 different answers. Sound farfetched? I used to think so, but after talking to engineers ...