Recent content by Russell Ensslin

Just remember, they call it work. They don't call it play because it's not always fun.

Thank you midiMag; I thought that the equipment grounding was the bonding to the ground fault current path to trip the breaker.

I thought the purpose of the effective growing fault current path was to allow the short to cause the over-current device to trip the circuit. I suppose it would also keep the majority of the current to flow to the easiest path back to the source which would cause an imbalance from some less...

One ohm is zero resistance. Right?

So if an electron could be called a charged particle and the voltage could be considered the amount of that charge and the little booger only wiggles on the wire outside the appliance (never goes in) then the amount of charge (voltage) on the charged particle must be diminished.

Thank you davenn. This is all very instructional. But my question not being correct makes understanding difficult. Something is fueling the appliance. I'm trying to get my head around what, from the supply, is reduced by the 4 amp load?. If I=E/R and your heater is 4 amperes then the amperes or...

These must sound like stupid questions but I'd rather ask and look silly than not ask and actually be.

So the un-spent electrons need to get back to the source? Is that it? If the electrons come out of the hot leg and go into the appliance and get spent as work why then does anything need to get back to the source? Why not just the hot leg to the appliance and the appliance burn the amps in the...

I hope you guys know that you help a lot of people. Just because someone gets on here an asks a few questions and then you never hear from them again doesn't mean you haven't helped them. #155 posts! 866 posts! I bet more than a few of those posts have improved the lives of more than a few people.

What is X1? X0? Is there an image somewhere?

So I've been researching and have found that the load tries to get back to it's place of origin; not the ground. That's why its called the neutral.

So the grounded conductor is a phase of the circuit ? And the ground is a safety from fault?

My question is; what is the difference between in neutral in the ground? Especially if you're going to connect the neutral to the ground after it's done whatever job it has to do? And how can it do that job if it gets connected to ground before it reaches the transformer?

So let's see if I have this straight. The application doesn't care if the load is positive or negative, as long as there is current carrying voltage back and fourth; or in one direction for that matter, as long as there is current.