Rumor has it that Patrick Finnegan may have mentioned these words:
>On Tuesday 04 May 2004 17:54, Tony Duell wrote:
> >
> > There is no such thing as ground!.
>
>Sure, there is. It's the voltage potential present on a long electrode
>inserted into the earth. :)
Hehehe... ;-)
> > 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.
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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Received on Tue May 04 2004 - 22:26:24 BST