CFL bulbs
Have three of them in front of the outside of my house on a hard wired timer. Been there for a couple of years. Today I noticed that when they were off two of them were flickering a little. One more t...
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A CFL has an anode, and a cathode and usually a starter choke ballast.
How they work
Porcelain lamp fixture for a lightbulb, be it CFL or argon gas and tungsten white hot heated element.
There is no green wire "ground" for the fixture, hence no ground for the light bulb.
End of debate. Also agreed, a Honda generator, or any other generator has no "Ground" or "earth" Connection, unless you want to pound a Ufer ground rod into the ground and tie it in to the ground wire, although it is perfectly unnecessary.
It is necessary when you are tied into the electrical grid, as the source of electricity, usually a huge generator, is then tied into ground also to provide a short circuit path.
How they work
Porcelain lamp fixture for a lightbulb, be it CFL or argon gas and tungsten white hot heated element.
There is no green wire "ground" for the fixture, hence no ground for the light bulb.
End of debate. Also agreed, a Honda generator, or any other generator has no "Ground" or "earth" Connection, unless you want to pound a Ufer ground rod into the ground and tie it in to the ground wire, although it is perfectly unnecessary.
It is necessary when you are tied into the electrical grid, as the source of electricity, usually a huge generator, is then tied into ground also to provide a short circuit path.
