Holy f*ck my whole understanding of electricity has drastically changed!
It all makes sense, though.
so if someone could please confirm th summary of my understanding I would appreciate it.
electricity doesn’t seek the path of least resistance to ground. It seeks the path of least resistance to...
yes, but at some point the resistance is so high that it’s not really differentiated from the air gap between two conductors an inch apart.
So barring a conventional path through ground, e.g., if an isolation transformer (or a maybe something else like a gas generator) is mounted on a heavily...
So in other words, I can really only get shocked on an unbonded, ungrounded isolation transformer if I touch between neutral and hot? Not hot or neutral to Earth ground?
so if I’m understanding what you’re saying properly...
if we never connected any of our power distributions systems to Earth ground, it wouldn’t travel through Earth back to source?
now maybe the possibility exists that a high resistance ground path back to the source exists, and so, like you said, you have two parallel return circuits to the source.
but that should only apply to properly bonded and grounded transformers and systems. without the bond, then there really...
can you explain to me why it is then that current will prefer to flow to ground if given the option?
Take for example a transformer with a high amperage breaker feeding several sub panels or feeders. At the point of customer use (say an outlet), if you touch the hot to a metal ground then it...
Hello,
I’ve been working with electricity for a few years and have a misconception that was recently revealed again to me. I remember asking my teacher this question in school and him not being able to answer.
In North American homes (and other buildings), the neutral or “grounded conductor”...