Smokey The Bear [RE-wrenches]

[John Raynes]

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While not feeling quite as strongly as some who have commented, I still 
would say, "don't even think of trying this".

I would guess that if there were any ground fault protection on either 
branch circuit, that it would likely trip.  Not because there would be a 
ground fault per se. But those devices are so darned sensitive that I'm 
betting that some small amount of neutral current would find an alternate 
path back home, enough to cause an imbalance and trip things out.

We need to get those Discovery Channel folks to set up an experiment and 
show us what happens.

John Raynes


At 07:41 AM 10/25/2007 -0700, you wrote:

>August,
>
>If the cable connects two sources of power that are identically sourced, 
>this only parallels them and as there is no significant potential 
>difference between them, the connection would basically do nothing.
>
>Todd
>
>
>August Goers wrote:
>
>>Matt -
>>I'm still chuckling after reading through your very thorough response.
>>Regarding your option C below where you state "...You have
>>a 50-50 chance of "nothing" happening if the buildings are connected to the
>>same side of a single-phase 120/208 or 120/240 utility transformer..."
>>Could you explain the logic here? I'm having a hard time understanding 
>>why it wouldn't create a short probably because I don't have a deep 
>>understanding of how the grid works.
>>-August
>
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