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We are in different worlds and I need some advice which applies to a particular practical situation in UK. I appreciate your input...
Sep 24, 2025
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Yes, I think we’re into ‘tomahto/tomayto” territory here. What you have is TN-C-S with extra earth rods at the installation end. You may...
Sep 24, 2025
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Ok. I suspected as much. Here in the USA the transformer is seldom very far from the service panel. Several hundred feet at the most...
Sep 24, 2025
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Various reasons: - A TN-C-S earth is almost always PME (protective multiple earthing), meaning the neutral must be earthed at multiple...
Sep 23, 2025
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There are pros and cons to every earthing system.
Sep 23, 2025
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That’s right, a TT earth is the customer’s responsibility, and perfectly acceptable if in spec. The OP requested an engineer visit to...
Sep 22, 2025
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I’ve just read this bit again - am I missing something, or did those engineers just walk away from a fault? At least part of your cable...
Sep 20, 2025
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I hadn’t heard of that, but I looked it up - on the same site, in two different places, it seems to say two different things...
Sep 18, 2025
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I have often turned nails into "soft iron", by heating and quenching them, for pupils making magnets. This makes the core lose its...
Sep 18, 2025
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That will change the magnetic properties, but it would actually harden it, and make it brittle. If you let mild steel cool slowly, then...
Sep 18, 2025
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Feeble! Your electric shower would draw 40A or so, for a start. My house has 100A*, and it’s just a rural croft house. I’d say you’ve...
Sep 18, 2025
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Heating copper to cherry red, then water-quenching, would soften it, but steel would harden. However, mild steel wouldn’t harden...
Sep 18, 2025
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Remember that of the three earthing options, only TN-S and TN-C-S are the DNO’s responsibility. TT is entirely the customer’s. I’d say...
Sep 17, 2025
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When 50,000 volts go through a wire at 5,000,000 FPS - The Slow Mo Guy
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What I said seemed to be the conclusion of Veritasium’s experiment? Time to first current pulse in the bulb was 1m/c seconds, determined...
Aug 30, 2025
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A ‘negative’ wavefront? Does an opposite wavefront travel the other way around the circuit? I did see those, and the responses from...
Aug 30, 2025
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