On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 01:38:28PM -0800, Lew Hodgett wrote:
> wrote:
>
> > That reminds me of the most impressive fast safety device I have
> > ever seen
> > demonstrated.
> >
> > It was installed on a table saw. If a finger touched the blade the
> > device
> > drove an aluminum wedge between
wrote:
> At Green Cove Springs Marina, south of Jacksonville FL, where I
> lived for 8
> years they used two legs of a three phase transformer for the "240".
> It
> was actually 208 when it left the transformer and because of cheap
> wiring
> dropped to about 195 by the time it got to me. I o
wrote:
> That reminds me of the most impressive fast safety device I have
> ever seen
> demonstrated.
>
> It was installed on a table saw. If a finger touched the blade the
> device
> drove an aluminum wedge between the blade and the table so fast the
> blade
> stoped instantly and the finger
That reminds me of the most impressive fast safety device I have ever seen
demonstrated.
It was installed on a table saw. If a finger touched the blade the device
drove an aluminum wedge between the blade and the table so fast the blade
stoped instantly and the finger was undamaged.
It was d
At Green Cove Springs Marina, south of Jacksonville FL, where I lived for 8
years they used two legs of a three phase transformer for the "240". It
was actually 208 when it left the transformer and because of cheap wiring
dropped to about 195 by the time it got to me. I only used my welder,
whic
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:32:47AM -0500, Spent Casings wrote:
>
> Current on the ground
> wire indicates a fault, and should cause some sort of alarm or disable
> the circuit where it happens (since the ground wire has resistance, so
> the existence of a current implies the existence of voltage b
If you've got a little tingle, then it sounds like the neutral wire _is_
bonded to ground (or shorted to ground) elsewhere in the system, and your
lamp hasn't properly insulated its touchable metal pieces from its power.
Ground bonds usually don't see enough current to even register as a
tingle,
I have the wild leg 3phase in my small commercial building in Spencer, NY.
We just avoid that bar in the panel boxes as we have no 3PH equipment.
Thinking about it, I will check to see if they are charging me extra for it.
Lee Haefele
> In certain parts of the rural SouthWest, the utility distribu
I am interested in having a phone/handheld mobile/I Phone etc and a
Kindle/Nook for use in Bahamas. Met one person that says his ATT phone has
free Bahamas use for $5 extra monthly. Will be checking this out.
What about mobile internet via 3G network? I see Americans using them in
Bahamas, do
