why are there separate neutral and ground wires for electricity when they both are connected to the same thing.
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The easiest way to explain this concept is 2 hallways that lead outside. One hallway has a bunch of doors to open and close before you get to the end, the other has no doors.
You are an electrical fault and you need to get outside quickly, which hallway do you use?
In this case, the empty hall is the ground wire, and the neutral has all the doors. The doors are “resistance” which is what every single electrical item on the circuit has, whether it be a light or fridge or YOU. Electricity always takes the path of least resistance, and in the simplest terms, you have no voltage coming OUT of the ground wire unless it contacts a live wire, so in the event that happens, the fault will travel down the ground wire because it has very little resistance in it.
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