Grounded Neutral vs. Floating Neutral

I knew a guy once who had a basic degree, could not get a job, he went back and got a masters degree, guess what still could not get a job, ended up getting a PHD, proves the "Piled Higher and Deeper" theory. He ended up teaching, he should be flipping burgers at McDonalds.

Must have taught students like these

Check other thread - doesn't know what are compensators.

From the sound of it he hasn't started any courses yet, 'working for a real estate company doing maintenance engineering' one has to wonder if he is even a licensed electrician? With any luck someone will point him at a source he can read and learn something, rather than spoon feeding.

Supplying to houses and streetlights. from me, (for poor neighbourhood persons)

No use of advising spoonfeeders.

See Post #6

And they don't know this spoonfeeding is going to create havoc.

Ever heard about a doctor who started prescribing a particular medicine to everybody, since he saw his senior prescribing to the first 3 or 4 (co-incidentally) patients ?

sb,

I really don't get your response, perhaps you can clarify what its purpose is ?

If you don't want to help then don't bother responding.

Point the person in the direction of information if you want to help.

Trying to put someone down because you believe that they should know something is pathetic.

Kind Regards

Mr. W.A Snow

When I am an electrical engineer (I was ages back as per my certificates- however now i am totally away from this subject), the at least I am supposed to know

a) What is a floating neutral and what is a grounded (or earthed) neutral (a third type too is available)

b) What are the transformer primary connections and neutral conditions and ditto for secondary (it also may be clarified that it is not always optimum to have same configurations for the primary and secondary)

The subject is vast and this is not a class room.

The OP was just asked to polish up his text books.

And it is not the quastions of my believing that he should know. It is the question of an electrical engineering graduate knowing the basics.

There is a safety area that should be observed, we are not just discussing a cake recipe, if something goes wrong with a power connection because someone did not observe or understand the dangers, people could get hurt!!! or worse......

True. But that does not give somebody the right to try and be-little someone else. If one is concerned with the safety issue and believes that the person requesting the information is not qualified then simply do not answer the post - that, I think is not that difficult.

Regards

Mr W.A Snow

As per your advice ignoring this.

However it becomes a bit difficult to live with ostrich syndrome.

Ignore somebody doing wrong ?

Your original reply was not to assist or educate the requester of the information. Its sole intention was to try and be-little someone for asking a question - not really sure what sort of kick you get out of this.

Suddenly, you then jump on the "safety issue" in a feeble attempt to justify your behaviour. You are now trying to come across as the concerned citizen and it clearly does not suit you.

If the intention of the original poster was to perform an act that would endanger himself/herself then it is highly unlikely that that person would be requesting information. It would appear that the original poster realized the he/she has a knowledge deficiency in this area and is trying to rectify this.

Kind Regards

Mr W.A Snow

There I must disagree with you. If that's what it takes to give them a heads up, then that's what it takes......

Did you see #17,

Just to reminisce- Based on the transformer, pri and secondary connections you can only say whether and which neutral should be floating and which one should be fixed or earthed. There is no general purpose rule here.

You have to explain the zero sequence currents to get to the root.

Logging out of the discussion. See you in another thread.

Best wishes, looking forward to seeing you again, you were right......

You got his attention I am sure and you may have prevented a serious accident too....who knows!

One does not have to be "nice" on such occasions, one needs to effectively settle a safety issue.....no matter what it takes.

I personally find such questions totally wrong in the first place, how can anyone start asking questions without first learning about the subject, CR4 is not Electricity 101, nor will it ever be........but some people simply do not understand that......

best regards

Andy G.

I am not sure that it will be un-healthy if a neutral has a short

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I think answering questions for students easier to stomach when someone simply explains their big project and asks a directed question about on of the related concepts instead of a solution to the whole thing. There are lots of helpful individuals who will help explain a. While this thread falls a into this category I have a problem with the symantics.

Since this is an open forum and nobody can expect or demand more than what they pay for here, I consider it good etiquette to finish a post with a polite question and a courteous close. Not "Please Advise" like is used in corporate environments when one department needs something from another.

Anyway, I'd rather he get some answers and nobody get hurt...but this is what a formal education and certification is supposed to guarantee.