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Re: Household NEUTRAL is not really a return path
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- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:57:26 -0600
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Original poster: "Daniel McCauley" <dhmccauley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Understood, but what is behind the sheetrock. There might be a lower
impedance path for it directly behind the sheet rock
and the arc is simply arcing through it to get to it.
> > current does NOT flow
> > through the shortest
> > path, or the past of least
> > resistance. It flows through the path of least
> > impedance.
>
> Granted, but I don't understand how a piece of
> sheetrock can have lower impedance than 6ft of copper
> pipe. Unless the sheetrock wall was picking up RF
> (maybe it was the foil backed stuff) and arcing to the
> radiator that was grounded.
>
> Steve
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