[Amps] Fw: Fw: Electricity costs

[david sutton]

No Gerald.
it's from a british tv show, long story.
Dave kg4uxr
 
Brits with a southern call? how strange, only when you hear the accent.
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Sent: Tue, December 8, 2009 11:15:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Fw: Electricity costs

So Dave, is that how you became "sootydave"?

73,
Gerald K5GW

In a message dated 12/8/2009 9:36:47 P.M. Central Standard Time, sootydave at yahoo.com writes:

> Well i see the funny side of that.
>In the UK electric customers used to put nails across the meter feed, so as to have electric supply after the electric company had cut them off.
>Dave 
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>From: Dr. David Kirkby <david.kirkby at onetel.net>
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>Sent: Tue, December 8, 2009 8:24:28 PM
>Subject: Re: [Amps] Electricity costs
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>Steve wrote:
>> I copied Colin's post about 110/220V operating to a couple of friends.
>> 
>> One replied:
>> 
>> "It reminds me of my Nan. She had this electric fire running 3 bars all 
>> day. We suggested that it might be costing her a fortune. She said, it 
>> wasn't costing her a penny since she had borrowed it from next door."
>> 
>> Now there's an interesting concept :-)
>> 
>> Steve
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>An ex work colleague of mine told me it often possible to get some electricity 
>free, by using the voltage between earth and neutral. These are tied together at 
>the local sub-station, but at your house they probably have different slightly 
>potentials. Making use of this, will not be detected by your electric meter.
>
>There's no doubt in my house, if neutral and earth are shorted, the 30 mA RCD 
>will trip, so I'm assuming I could get > 30 mA, but the voltage is quite low, so 
>I do not think you will run a 3 bar electric fire from it. Perhaps enough to 
>light a few LEDs.
>
>It goes without saying, but bypassing RCDs to get free electricity like this 
>would have safety implications.
>
>
>Dave
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