What happens when a neutral wire breaks in a house?
A neutral wire broke inside the street transformer. So current took a return path via the gas meter. When insulators finally broke down, the house exploded. Homeowner knowledge is quite simple to avert such failures. If get the problem eliminates. In most cases, that light intensity change is
Why current does not flow in neutral wire?
Only current that flows in a neutral is due to > imbalance in the load. > A safety ground is not as conductive as the neutral. But it should be > conductive enough so that current does not use other paths. For example, > in one house, the earth ground was completely missing. A neutral wire > broke inside the street transformer.
What happens if the power company Neutral is lost?
If you lose the power company neutral the current has no way to return to the transformer. If you are the only one on the transformer then you should experience this.
What happens if you have a loose neutral in a transformer?
This all goes to show how a loose neutral combined with other faults can be a serious issue. If you lose the power company neutral the current has no way to return to the transformer. If you are the only one on the transformer then you should experience this.
Can I leave neutral wire unconnected?
Yes. If you're getting rid of the receptacle, you should cap off the grounded (neutral) conductor in the switch box. Just make sure there's no exposed wire sticking out of the connector, and you use a twist-on wire connector rated for a single wire.
What happens when you remove a neutral wire?
As a result, voltage imbalance in the system will occur. If the load is not identical, then removing neutral conductor can cause unequal voltages across the loads. Some phase will have lower voltage and some will have higher. And hence, the device receiving this high or low voltage will be under risk.
Is neutral wire necessary?
The presence of a neutral wire is not required (many computers do not have a neutral wire connection). Grounding problems only exist in computer installations when two separate pieces of grounded equipment are interconnected through data communication lines.
Can a light fixture work without a neutral?
The neutral wire allows the completion of the circuit and the switch to have power even when it's turned to the off position when you want the lights off. Without this neutral wire in place, the circuit is broken any time the switch is now in the off position. It remains has power when the switch is in the On Mode.
Doug Miller
In article < 6cijfmF...@mid.individual.net >, "Bill" < billnoma...@yahoo.com > wrote: >I've seen "loose neutral" connections on electric service panels, but never >a fully disconnected neutral with the two hots remaining connected. > >So I was wondering what exactly would happen if a residential electric >service (3 wire 240/120 with neutral) lost just the electric company neutral >connection but had a good ground to the neutral bar in the main panel?.
S. Barker
I can answer this with experience. A long long time ago, (about 1987) we
westom
Bill wrote: > So I was wondering what exactly would happen if a residential electric > service (3 wire 240/120 with neutral) lost just the electric company > neutral connection but had a good ground to the neutral bar in the > main panel?
jamesgangnc
But the earth rod and the transformer ground are not going to carry enough current to stabilize the load. Loss of neutral between the house and the service will result in the potential between the two hots and neutral varying depending on the total load on each side. So it will be divided just like it is now but not always equally.
westom
jamesgangnc wrote: > But the earth rod and the transformer ground are not going to carry > enough current to stabilize the load. Loss of neutral between the > house and the service will result in the potential between the two > hots and neutral varying depending on the total load on each side.
jamesgangnc
Transformers are usually grounded. Houses still have 3 wires. 2 hots and a grounded neutral.
jamesgangnc
I was replying to the poster that said he had never seen a transformer ground and asked if houses have 4 wires now. Did I say the service entrance neutral did not carry a load? No, I didn't.