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Winged_One
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Jul 30, 2015

Electrical cord wrapped in a circle cause problems?

Several weeks back was at a private campground. The owner and another fellow were trying to work out a lack of ground on their 50 amp connection (this really is neither here nor there). Anyway, th...
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westend
Explorer
Aug 01, 2015
pnichols wrote:
I'm way at the end of this, but I'll add one more true-story mystery to see who can solve it -

While In the AF at a high tech facility I once held a multi-wire cable in my hands not coiled - with each end laying on the floor - and there was a voltage we measured across a couple of pins of the connectors on each end. What caused this?

Hint: I had to destroy this expensive taxpayer provided cable to solve it.
Capacitance in the wires, induction, or galvanic reaction between wires?

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