[RE-wrenches] Fwd: Grounding on a glacier??

[Hugh]

In an ideal world they are only hot relative to the other.  In the 
real world there will be leakage and also faults that connect one or 
other pole to the grounding system.  So then the other pole will 
thereby become hot.  So, again, they are both potentially hot.  And 
both therefore need to be fused, switched, etc...

>"If neither pole is grounded then both must be treated as potentially hot."
>
>Only with regard to the other hot wire. If you do not reference one 
>conductor to ground than the other one will not present any danger 
>unless you are referenced to its mate... as in touching both wires 
>at once.
>
>Todd
>
>_______________________________________________
>List sponsored by Home Power magazine
>
>List Address: RE-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org
>
>Options & settings:
>http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org
>
>List-Archive: 
>http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org
>
>List rules & etiquette:
>www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm
>
>Check out participant bios:
>www.members.re-wrenches.org


-- 
Hugh Piggott

Scoraig Wind Electric
Scotland
http://www.scoraigwind.co.uk
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org/attachments/20090726/18bf14fa/attachment-0004.html>