On 5/20/14, 10:46 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
On 5/20/2014 10:02 PM, Grant Saviers wrote:
So why are x uH's of green wire inductance ok in the three wire case
and not for a single green wire (engineering pls, not UL regs)?
First, if all three conductors go through the choke, a fault on the
circuit will blow a breaker faster.
I don't think that the small inductance from a choke on the electrical
safety ground will change how fast the circuit breaker blows: what blows
the breaker is line frequency.
I suspect the "rules" reason for not having anything in the greenwire is
that you don't want a "component" in series that might fail,leaving the
bonding open. I can imagine a "design to cost" filter putting a little
teeny tiny RFC on a pc board in series that will act as a 20 amp fuse.
Easier if they just make a rule "wire or chassis, no components".
So that said, running the green wire (by itself) through a choke like
we're talking here (half a dozen turns through a ferrite core) probably
is safe.
Second, at RF, the capacitance
between conductors tends to put the conductors in parallel.
73, Jim K9YC
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