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[LIVE] How to Achieve Proper Grounding - Rick Hartley - Expert Live Training (US)

Rick Hartley gives a roughly two-hour live training on proper grounding in PCB design. He explains how energy actually flows in the space between conductors, and how that governs noise, EMI, return paths and signal reflections.

Why HN readers recommended it

Hailed as the best video on electrical engineering and an essential, eye-opening watch for anyone designing high-speed boards.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Altium
Topic
pcb grounding and emi
Format
lecture
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
9
HN mentions in dataset
11
Recommendation years in dataset
2021–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • Some kinds of "expert" are a commodity: you can hire an astronomy PhD or a registered nurse. Entrepreneurs traffic in a special expertise: valuable, unique and defensible IP. All Roy Kroc had to know was how to teach people to teach other people how to …

    PaulHoule on Hacker News · 2021-02
    In Ask HN: Have You Consulted with Experts?
  • My recommendation would be to search YouTube for "Rick Hartley". The guy is extremely knowledgeable, yet humble, and presents things like grandpa reciting a war story. It's easy to listen to, and I'd take him being on any kind of program as an endorsement that …

    fxtentacle on Hacker News · 2021-10
    In Teach Me PCB
  • For anyone who cares enough to watch a 2 hour video on it and hasn’t seen it yet, this Rick Hartley video is the recent gold standard of explaining the issues at play: [VIDEO]

    brunooo on Hacker News · 2023-11
    In Signal Reflections in Electronic Circuits

Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.