[AT] While we're on the subject of generators

[Stephen Offiler]

OK, to nitpick Charlie V, current can't "hang around with no place to
go" because current is moving electrons.  Stop the motion, and you
stop the current.  Voltage, yeah.  You CAN say "without the completion
of the ground we just have some voltage hanging around in a wire with
no place to go..."

Sorry, Charlie Hill, but I am afraid you might have some kind of
mental block with regards to this stuff.  I don't know what to say to
break thru that.  If you want to keep the discussion going in an
attempt to do so, feel free to do so!

Steve O.

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:23 PM, CEE VILL <cvee60 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> My $ .02
>
> 1) grounding out the circuit the neutral is carrying current for.
>
>  It seems it is not a circuit unless it is tied to ground, Charlie.
> Without the completion of the ground we just have some current hanging
> around in a wire with no place to go much like the bird sitting on the
> hot line.  Also like a plug wire on a WD-45 that is just dangling in the air.
>
> Charlie V.
>
>
>
>> From: charliehill at embarqmail.com
>> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:24:14 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [AT] While we're on the subject of generators
>>
>> Steve that is the confusing part of it to me.  Knowing that the neutral
>> carries current how can it be tied to the ground without 1) grounding out
>> the circuit the neutral is carring current for or 2) energizing the ground
>> circuit?
>>
>> To me it's like hooking your potable water and grey water piping together
>> and saying the potable water is not contaminated.  Heck with the plumbing
>> example you could at least put a check valve/backflow preventer in the
>> circuit.  I've never seen a diode between the neutral and the ground in a
>> 200 AMP panel.  I know the example is rediculous.  I'm just trying to point
>> out how confusing it is to me.
>>
>> Charlie
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Stephen Offiler" <soffiler at gmail.com>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:06 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] While we're on the subject of generators
>>
>>
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