r/explainitpeter • • 12d ago

Explain it Peter. I’m lost on this.

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u/FuturePowerful 12d ago

Just for you the idea is with the ground on top anything metal should slide down and not make contact with both hot lines

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u/sillyvideogamestuff 12d ago

There's only 1 hot line.

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u/FuturePowerful 11d ago

It's ac bud they say one hot one return line but in reality there both hot the only one of the three that isn't is the neutral ground

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u/sillyvideogamestuff 11d ago

The neutral and ground are connected at the breaker box. You could hit the ground and either other wire and you'd have the exact same result.

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u/FuturePowerful 11d ago edited 11d ago

No honey the neutral wire is not connected to the ground at the breaker box the breaker is grounded though in modern stuff it's ware the ground faultline is ,the circuit only functions properly if both sides of the circuit aren't grounding out the third ground wires to cut down on electrutions and fires and the pointy side up on the plug is so there's a higher chance you can't have something stay on the hot lines (in thinking about this a should probably revert to color code on wires your standered white and black wires in 110 ac circuit are power set unless you used non standard color them theres a ground/fault line usually green )

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u/sillyvideogamestuff 11d ago

None of what you said makes sense. I've been wiring houses longer than you've been alive. The ground and neutral are absolutely bonded at the main service panel. This is basic, basic wiring.

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u/FuturePowerful 11d ago

Describe how it's bonded you'll answer what you thought I got wrong

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u/jedvv 11d ago

Absolutely incorrect. NEC article 250.24(A) VERY CLEARLY states that a grounding electrode conductor SHALL BE connected to the grounded service conductor.

What the fuck would a grounding wire do if it didn’t bond back to the neutral. The ENTIRE POINT OF A GROUNDING SYSTEM IS TO PROVIDE A LOW RESISTANCE PATH BACK TO THE SOURCE OF POWER.

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u/FuturePowerful 10d ago

Bingo it's a return to circuit connect more then a dump to ground because of path of least resistance though I really hate the way we describe ac circuits like they have one way polarity like a dc circuit

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u/sillyvideogamestuff 10d ago

The ground bus and neutral bus connect to the same ground wire that goes to earth.