One yr during a storm, I lost the neutral line running from the pole to the house.

Sadly, it wsn't the ONLY wire running from the house to the pole as my cable modem conductor was also hung that way

The reason that wire being cut caused all the issues was that it allowed the lamp's phase to act as a latch for the relay that kept the lamp turned on, the wire layout caused the faulty latch to bypass the off button, and pressing the on button connected the same phase on both pins of the lamp, turning it off. @ManAnimal

With no neutral, return current had to go SOMEWHERE

melted the HELL out of that tiny coax cable in about 1/2 a second

Do you know what a 'synchroscope' is Timeward? It works on a similar principle

In power distribution, you have a large load or 'grid' and you want to provide more capacity to a live circuit without turning everything off

but if your on-coming 3-phase generator runs at a freq even SLIGHTLY out of phase with the online system, you'll see a LARGE voltage across the switch/breaker you are closing. As there is usually hundreds or even thousands of amps available, closing 180 deg out of phase can turn a 1 ton circuit breaker into a projectile

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@PureEvilPie Little mistake in alignment makes lever in wall go boom

A 'sychro-scope' has an analog meter and a pair of 'sync lamps' connected across the online and oncoming behind an isolation xfrm set. When the voltage is 'in sync' the lamps go off

when the sources go out of phase, the lamps come on get brightest at 180, then dim again

lights are out? close breaker

Maybe thats why the two ohases we measured yesterday were at 380V

yup

When they should've been at zero

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRPDGEgaATU>

Small desync in the circuit breaker

because two phase of the same line witll always vary by 120 deg

Generator

Fhck

most simulators pass at least one phase of three through a phase shift-cirucit so that on phase + the shifted phase gives a new voltage based on the amount of shift

that's how a VFD works

>people live on hope

lol

people live on power

no power? no toliets, food, water... no hope

people live on potential, face resistance and need capacitance

or something like that

ah, potential (voltage) and inertia (current) = Power

@ManAnimal

yup time

LOL

https://youtu.be/5WDon1uSVlo

1 - What's a lineup?

2 - A knife fight sounds fun if dangerous

3 - I hope the metal for those scissors was formed in a free range mine

lol; i'll pass. never bring a knife to a gun fight

Its clearly a knife fight animal