Fw: Neutral/Earth connections

2000-10-12 Thread Lou Aiken
.From: Lou Aiken To: k3row Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 2:54 PM Subject: Re: Neutral/Earth connections > There should ne no connection between any current carrying conductor and the > frame of the product; in the USA or anywhere else in my opinion. > > I don't know w

RE: Neutral/Earth connections

2000-10-11 Thread rbusche
e imbalance. Just a thought... Rick -Original Message- From: Rich Nute [mailto:ri...@sdd.hp.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 3:38 PM To: wo...@sensormatic.com; k3...@eurobell.co.uk Cc: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Re: Neutral/Earth connections Hi Ri

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2000-10-11 Thread O'Shaughnessy, Paul
o question (if they have regulatory marks) whether anyone qualified to judge safety ever looked at it. -Original Message- From: wo...@sensormatic.com [mailto:wo...@sensormatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 3:31 PM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: RE: Neutral/Earth connecti

RE: Neutral/Earth connections

2000-10-11 Thread Crane, Lauren
Beverly, MA 01915 * 978.921-9745 lauren.cr...@axcelis.com -Original Message- From: k3row [mailto:k3...@eurobell.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 2:27 PM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Neutral/Earth connections The company that I work for in the U.K has recen

Re: Neutral/Earth connections

2000-10-11 Thread Rich Nute
Hi Richard and Dave: In answer to Richard's comment: > The neutral is never to be tied to the chassis of equipment. It is not > allowed by any safety standard nor the National Electrical Code. The neutral > is to be tied to earth at one and only one point and that is that the > servi

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2000-10-11 Thread WOODS
...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Neutral/Earth connections The company that I work for in the U.K has recentlyreceived from the USA an item of test equipment, provided to us under contract, in which, we discovered, the 240v neutral line was connected to earth/unit

Neutral/Earth connections

2000-10-11 Thread k3row
The company that I work for in the U.K has recentlyreceived from the USA an item of test equipment, provided to us under contract, in which, we discovered, the 240v neutral line was connected to earth/unit chassis. This became apparent when the unit was plugged into a U.K 120-0-120 supply and prot