3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
professor95 wrote: EDIT ADDED 45/5/2013- When this thread started in March of 2005, I never expected to see it survive this long or amass the quantity of information that has been shared here. In...
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MrWizard wrote:
neutral is term that NEVER should have been used in AC circuit wiring
the white wire/neutral is 1/2 of the electrical circuit, 1 of the wires used to carry current, there is nothing NEUTRAL about it, if that wire is broke if the connection is broke the device does NOT operate ( utility power or generator )
I don't know all the history, but it may go back to when there was no ground connector in residential wiring. One of the two conductors was referenced to ground (still is actually) and if the appliance that plugged into the two prong receptical needed a ground, it used a polarized plug.
They do need to be differentiated from each other. One is hot, one is not (voltage wise) unless, as you said, there is a fault in the wiring. If we don't treat them any differently, then it should not matter if the circuit breaker is in the hot wire or the neutral.
Bob R.
