[AMPS] Grounds

[gd0tep@qsl.net]

> >Interesting. We use to have that system in the UK, but it is no longer
allowed.
> >These were called ELCB - Earth Leakage Circuit Breaker - popularly called
> >'voltage trips'. These days, we have 'current trips', which work on the
basis of
> >live and neutral currents differing by more than 30mA.

Now that's interesting, as I remember fitting current operated (30 or 100ma)
ELCB devices.
Amazing how little current is required to make a cow jump!
And if you make the cow jump more than once,  the telepathic link to the
farmer makes him jump to. :-)

RCD's now, aren't they?

73 de Andy


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