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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Vulcan Rider wrote:put your attitude and tour BS detector aside and read what people are trying to get across here. I just can't get any clearer than say it once more..road-runner wrote:
Anyone who doesn't know the answers to the above questions, as a previous post "politely" stated:
"You are out of your league here".
Hints: They are not tied together (which would be a NEC violation), and GFIs do not need a ground to work.
Sure be an ass; that really contributes positively to the discussion.
I readily admit little to no experience or knowledge with generator systems that are not a part of the power grid and am asking for information.
IF.....the white and ground wires are not connected together at a central distribution box, then where IS the "ground" wire connected ....and to what ??
And yes I know that a GFI really detects a current flow in the third "ground" wire.....where there should be none but for that to happen it has to be connected to something somewhere. Maybe it would more properly called a "neutral fault" detector. But then, how would it detect a fault in the "neutral" if there IS NO neutral in a balanced AC feed ??
I may not know everything about generator systems but I have a REALLY good grasp of the basics and my BS detector is still going off.
It is a LAMP. It has no hot, no ground, no neutral... It is pure AC. The fact that it has a "hot" side and a "neutral" side BEFORE the lamp makes ZERO difference to the lamp. 2 pages ago you said "check for loose grounds".. Who cares? Call it what you want: a resistive load, an inductive load, etc. in this case a CFL, which has FAR more electronics in it than your diode BTW.. IT, whatever IT is is being fed by 2 wires. There is NO ground, no Hot. Just unreferrenced volts.
Since you want to sling credentials around.. I design and build TV and Radio Studios and Sound stages, 50kw transmitters, microwave sites, Satellite and ENG trucks and helicopters for a living all over the US and Puerto Rico. Prior to this 35 year stint I spent 5 years at GTE in the training department showing the field guys how a telephone network runs. I'm pretty sure I understand how to feed a light bulb.
Maybe someone else can give this a try.
