Questions tagged [neutral]
a circuit conductor that normally carries current, and is connected to ground (earth) at the main electrical panel.
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How does leaving the neutral line not connected to device lead to burn it? [closed]
When an air conditioner (inverter AC) connected to the source 220V/50 Hz the circuit breaker became off and each time I tried to make CB on it returned to off directly.
After the maintenance center ...
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Is the live block connection to go into the STC1000 correct? [migrated]
The red wire goes into the live block of the STC1000 that I am working with (on the other end.) As I understand it, the red wire should be attached to the right pin (left in the image) of the plug. ...
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Is high earth to neutral voltage in single phase power supply system indication of high earth resistance?
In a single phase power supply system, if I measure the earth to neutral voltage, can I use it to indicate the health or status of the earth resistance i.e. if E-N voltage is high, is it due to earth ...
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How to connect live and neutral and earth connection in AC devices plugged into socket?
I know that when I have a fixed lamp in my house I have to use a single switch on the live wire. But when the device is connected using a plug the live wire and the neutral wire vary depending on how ...
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Would a person receive a shock/risk death if they completed two ends of a neutral wire?
I know this seems like a silly question but I'm trying to make sure I understand the neutral wire. So I know if someone touched a neutral wire (assuming everything is wired 100% correctly) carrying ...
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How a high Earth to Neutral voltage affects electronic equipment like L2 or L3 switches? [closed]
We have lot of communication equipment installed recently in our organisation. From then, lot of pressure on us to reduce Earth to Neutral voltage at the input of our communication equipment like L2 ...
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Why do we connect neutral and ground at the transformer? [closed]
Why do we connect neutral to ground at the transformer, why can't we just connect that neutral to the ground at our house?
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What's the use of neutral wire in single phase home supply? [duplicate]
I am aware that the neurtal wire provides a return path for the current to the power source. But that neutral wire too, is connected to the ground at somewhere between the load and the source.
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Switch type for electrical generator bonded to floating neutral
I have an electrical power generator and for it to properly work with it connected to the house it must be converted from bonded neutral to floating neutral according to these instructions. I was ...
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Connect the oscilloscope to equipment with a common neutral and ground
I watched a video. At 3 minutes, the situation is shown when neutral and ground are joining. Why can this be dangerous? If we are talking about an oscilloscope, the crocodile must already be connected ...
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Running long underground line without neutral or safety ground using transformer, is it to code?
My prior question asked about a single wire earth return [SWER] system. Both questions are aimed at meeting the same end requirement but this is a sufficiently different method that many of the issues ...
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What are the reasons behind marking neutral and line terminals on a power supply AC input?
Even though AC has no polarity, almost all the power supply AC inputs or most AC powered device input terminals indicate line and neutral terminals as L and N just like in the following example:
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Wiring 3P+N Device to 3P+N+E Connection
I have a 415V compressor with a 3-phase Commando plug in the configuration 3P+E, however my wall socket is 3P+N+E. Is it possible to change the plug on the compressor to a 3P+N+E without connecting ...
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Running a long 120VAC line without a neutral
Source is a home 120/240VAC with pole transformer. I want to direct bury a 500 foot 120V line to run some battery chargers and dont need more than 10 amps. Why cant I only run a single large ...
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Role of the neutral conductor in three phase systems
In a symmetrical and balanced three phase system no current flows on the neutral conductor.
Obviously the real electric power distribution systems are not perfectly balanced, so there is a current on ...
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What does it mean when my car inverter's labeling says “Neutral Floating”? Is it safe to use?
I recently came across a fairly old car inverter. It plugs into a 12v DC lighter socket, and outputs 115 Vac at 60 Hz, and has a normal American outlet on the side of it (with a ground pin, which ...
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L and N switched, from a functional point of view, what difference does it make for the device being powered?
Consider a generic single phase AC 240 V (or 125V) device for home use such as a hair dryer.
From a purely functional point of view, what difference does it make if a phase is switched with the ...
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Designing PCB with AC Live and Neutral on two layers
I'm designing a smart socket that will route 240V AC Live and Neutral to a voltage regulator and also to a relay that will control the current flow. Due to the limited space, it will be easier to ...
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How can a circuit not have a neutral?
I've been making plans to install a NEMA 6-50 outlet in my garage, but I don't understand how it can not have a neutral, and instead have two hots (at 120v each) and a ground.
What completes the ...
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Normally Closed Negative Output, Positive Input Relay
I'm attempting to wire up my remote start in my manual transmission vehicle to ONLY start when the vehicle is in neutral. The way that the transmission works is like this:
When in neutral, resistance ...
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Can I put a low current relay between line (or neutral) and the ground wires to detect polarity?
Can I put a low current (<5 mA) 230V coil, NC (normal close contact) relay between one wire of mains and the ground (earth) wire in order to check mains polarity?
In theory if the wire is line (...
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Line to ground faults
I am having a trouble understanding the concept of line to ground faults,and ground in general.
In this simple single phase circuit, does current reach the load and the circuit operates normally? ...
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Does the neutral wire have any voltage?
In this article, the author talks about 3 phase and the magic of a missing neutral wire. And there's the following paragraph:
In a 3-phase system the voltage between any two phases is 3 times ...
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Neutral wiring in residential homes
I understand from the diagram below that the neutral wire provides a return path to complete the circuit so that the current can flow.
But once the current goes back to the distribution transformer, ...
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Why no current in neutral wire_kids question
One school child asked me -
If current means flow of electrons, or entering to a bulb from one wire (Live) then going back through another wire, then why there is no current in the neutral wire, ...
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Why short circuit occur when the hot line touches the neutral wire (aka ground)?
The charges move from negative (hot wire) to positive/negative (neutral) to make the device work right? So why would the Short occur only when they are directly connected? Wouldn't they just flow ...
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Circuit for Neutral point of 3-Phase mains
I wonder if the 'Neutral Point' as mentioned in the attached image is correctly labeled or not? Is there any mistake in this 3-phase circuit design?
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Also it looks like the 'Neutral point' is ...
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Odd voltage readings between phase-ground, phase-neutral, neutral-ground
Recently i tried gathering voltages from few AC outlets in my house. I got following readings using a dmm
Phase-Ground = 398V-400V (should be around 240V)
Phase-Neutral = 230 V
Neutral-Ground= 210 V ...
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Question on Ground/Neutral connection for a 220V equipment
I sketched the following schematic from a motor controller board that has to be operated at 220V from L1 to L2. The earth wire is connected to the chassis of the machine. Where I live, it's common to ...
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Home electrical transmission question [closed]
AC current is sine wave with 60 hz frequency - how is this helpful in understanding electricity and transmission? Does the sine wave progress through electric wire or stands static and oscillates?
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Why is earth at 0 V with respect to phase?
In 3 phase transmission lines we have different voltages depending on how we measure it. Phase to phase voltage is going to be 1.73 times more than phase to neutral. So far I understand everything ...
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Why cut both live and neutral wires?
It is a common practice, for high power loads such as boilers, furnaces, etc., to install a circuit breaker that "cuts" both live and neutral wires - at least in Europe.
In my search for EVSE, I saw ...
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Can connecting just neutral wire of power supply to a PCB (VDD not connected) cause sparks and burn out decoupling capacitor?
I have an embedded system and one of the PCBs in the module should be connected to a 5V power supply -> positive(+) and neutral(-). The NEUTRAL knob is directly tied to the GROUND knob in the power ...
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Am I compensated by the electricity company for electricity that exits my home on the neutral wire? [closed]
DISCLAIMER: I am not an electrician or electrical engineer.
Let's say that all I have running in my home is a 10 watt LED light bulb (nothing else). This bulb uses very little of the electricity ...
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Meggering Three Phase Motor (Phase-GND, Phase-Neutral, GND-Neutral)
When meggering a three phase motor, could someone please help me understand the values we would expect to see for a motor with no insulation or ground faults.
From my understanding:
Phase-GND: ...
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Why is neutral wire connected to ground at the transformer?
I understand the use of ground wire at the home appliances but why is the neutral wire connected to ground at the transformer? Why doesn't the neutral wire go back to the power generation plants.
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Why is neutral required in three phase charging of Electric vehicles?
Talking about both three-phase AC as well as DC fast charging (wherein 3 phase AC is converted to DC) in EVs, I think that the 3-phase rectifier represents a balanced 'load'. Therefore I want to know ...
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Can I swap active/neutral on an isolated 240V power supply? [duplicate]
I'm looking at using a Meanwell IRM-03 isolated switchmode power supply (datasheet) in a project but the active/neutral pins are arranged in an inconvenient way for the PCB tracks. It would be a heap ...
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480v delta/400v wye with Neutral ungrounded
I have a European machine using a 480/400 volt three phase transformer. The neutral conductor is used to power some devices at 230 volt. The manuf. insists that the neutral must not be solidly ...
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Earth& neutral voltage detection
Can someone suggest me circuit to detect the earth to neutral voltage. I would like to trip relay coil using microcontroller if earth to neutral voltage exceeds 3v.
There are device RCB and RCBO ...
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How does circuit completes when physical ground(earth) is used as neutral? [duplicate]
In my locality there is no neutral wire. Our transmission company runs only 3 wires(all line/phase) and no neutral(4th wire) at all. Out of three, one runs to our houses. I know it sounds incorrect, ...
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Where does branch circuit neutral current go in a single phase or three phase electrical panel?
Specifically, I would like to know the exact path of travel for the neutral current when it comes back from a load to the electrical panel. I am an electrician of 20 years and have recently acquired ...
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Why is the neutral pin hotter than the live pin?
I frequently use an Immersion Rod Water Heater (shown below) and I have noticed that the after unplugging the heater, the neutral pin of the 3 pin plug is quite hot (about 5 degrees more - but not ...
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How to overcome weak neutral from electric company?
suppose I am using very good earths ( let 2 numbers) at my home to avoid the risk of failure of neutral of electric company. Then should I common my earth with neutral? But if this is done the in case ...
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3 phase generator residual voltage
A 3 phase wye-connected, 115 V, 400 Hz generator is used to power a test stand in which a motor controls a wiper arm that operates a three phase Variac to control the voltage across each of the phases....
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Neutral and the earth are bonded at the main panel or the substation but why is only earth wire used for safety?
Typical distribution system can be illustrated as:
Here are my premises (and assumptions):
1-) Chassis in a house must be connected to the earth, not to the neutral.
2-) The earth and the neutral ...
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Should neutrals be tied together or left separate?
I'm working on a control panel. The panel is powered by 120VAC single phase (USA). The panel has a battery backup unit (UPS) which powers the panel if the incoming power goes out, and which filters ...
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Connecting a surge protection device
I've just learned about the surge protection device (SPD). As I was reading about its connection in a three phase line, I came across this scheme:
I understand that the SPD's are there to limit the ...
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What would happen if a neutral wire and a hot wire were vastly different lengths?
Pretend you had a 120v load, where the hot (ungrounded conductor) was say only 5 feet in length from the source to the load, but the neutral was say, 1000 feet. Excluding things such as voltage drop (...
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Why is the Earth a useful reference of electric potential?
I may be a little confusing, but I honestly need a good help to make me understand certain things. I like very much to learn theory, but I feel that if I learn it without associating to the real life, ...
