[AT] : Ice Storm

[Mattias Kessén]

Right on Charlie!

2007/12/17, charlie hill <chill8 at suddenlink.net>:
>
> Bob if you are running a drill with a 3 prong plug (old type, metal frame
> drill) and you are running it from an ungrounded generator set I can't see
> where you even have a neutral.  Wouldn't it be the same as if you cut the
> ground lug off the plug?  Therefore the 5 milliamps could not bleed off.
> OHH!  I think I see the point now.  You guys are saying that if 5
> milliamps
> go to ground through ME it will trip the breaker regardless of the ground
> or
> neutral circuit?  Now it's starting to make sense.
>
> Charlie
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> > With a ground fault receptale or breaker if more than 5 millamps of
> > electricity goes out on the black wire that does not return on the
> neutal
> > white wire
> > the ground fault receptale or breaker trips, shutting off the power. The
> > cannot
> > turn it loose point is 29 millamps.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Robert Mull
> > Woodstock, Georgia   </HTML>
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