In a message dated 7/5/2006 10:54:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk writes:
Only if the two loads have identical power factors. If one is capacitive and
one is inductive, the currents in the neutral won't cancel.
OF COURSE
>in which case it would be a dead short which will throw the breaker in a
fraction of a second<
OK. We have to consider the possible fault current during the time that the
breaker takes to open (or not, sometimes!) Interestingly, there was a Boeing
747-400 had a bit of a problem 10 years ago because Boeing mistakenly fitted a
25 amp breaker instead of 2.5Amp breaker, and the wiring couldn't handle the
fault current. So the fuses in out mains plugs have something like a
60kAmp fault breaking capability i.e. they can break a fault current of 60kA.
They
don't get long to do it, obviously!
73
Peter G3RZP
Peter in your observation above, indeed that would be a problem since the
breaker required and the breaker installed was a factor of 10 times. Lou
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