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Article #285Re: Two phases to house - loss of neutral
From: David Brodbeck
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:54
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:54
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kreed wrote: > You are both right and wrong as in the absence of Neutral line, a lot > of the neutral current (imbalance) would probably flow via your earth > stake back to the transformer neutral or to a neighbours neutral via > their earth stake and while its not a perfect situation, imbalance > probably would not be as bad as you might think ? > > Of course, if there is a long run through earth (terra firma) back to > the nearest neutral, the soil is really dry, the earth stake is sub- > standard etc etc it might not work very well. Sometimes, just to make things really exciting, some of the neutral current flows over alternate paths to a neighbor's house. These alternate paths can include things like cable TV shields.
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