RothEnterprise
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- Sri Lanka
Hi Mike,
I have watched your electrical fundamentals video, and it was very eye opening. Especially the part where you say that the earth is not a ground, and that if you touch a loose wire in your home, the current does not go into the ground through you, but instead goes into the ground in order to loop back to the source in the electrical box. This raises a few questions from me:
1. Why does it go back "home" to the box? Shouldn't it go back home to the power plant where it was generated?
2. If the home for some reason does not have a ground rod which connects to the electrical box, if you touch a loose wire, does that mean you will not get electricuted, because the current does not have a path through the ground rod through to the source?
3. If relation to stray voltage in cows in the countryside, if the electricity is put into the ground somewhere and it travels back to its home in the power plant, what makes it detour up, through, and back out of the cow?
Thanks, Adam
I have watched your electrical fundamentals video, and it was very eye opening. Especially the part where you say that the earth is not a ground, and that if you touch a loose wire in your home, the current does not go into the ground through you, but instead goes into the ground in order to loop back to the source in the electrical box. This raises a few questions from me:
1. Why does it go back "home" to the box? Shouldn't it go back home to the power plant where it was generated?
2. If the home for some reason does not have a ground rod which connects to the electrical box, if you touch a loose wire, does that mean you will not get electricuted, because the current does not have a path through the ground rod through to the source?
3. If relation to stray voltage in cows in the countryside, if the electricity is put into the ground somewhere and it travels back to its home in the power plant, what makes it detour up, through, and back out of the cow?
Thanks, Adam