4 May
2004
4 May
'04
3:26 p.m.
Rumor has it that Patrick Finnegan may have mentioned these words:
Along that vein: Sure you can! Can't say you'd like the results, but
nothing's stopping you... ;-)
[[ this from a guy who durned near burned down his home (and fried himself)
this past Sunday, trying to hook up a new 30A drop to run my table saw (so
I can hook up my 200A service) on *at least* a 70 year-old 60A blade-swich
fusebox... while it's live. Dumbest design I've ever seen - they ran the
neutral strip *inbetween* the 2 pre-fuse live poles of 220V 60Hz -- with
only 1/2 inch (1.27cm) to spare on either side... and when the blade switch
was open, you couldn't access the (now dead) hot lug terminals - the blade
switch bar got in the way! Ugh! =:-P~ ]]
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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On Tuesday 04 May 2004 17:54, Tony Duell wrote:
Hehehe... ;-)
There is no such thing as ground!.
Sure, there is. It's the voltage potential present on a long electrode
inserted into the earth. :) If you've
generated a 3-phase supply with one of the phased
centre-tapped (as we're describing here) complelete isolated from
everything else (including ground), then you can ground any point of
it that you like -- including one of the phases or the centre-tap
point. Of course once you've picked a point to connect to ground,
then you can't ground any other point in the circuit as well.
Exactly.