Re[3]: Household NEUTRAL is not really a return path

Original poster: Illicium Verum <sebas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Hello Jim,

Thanks for clarifying, interesting how it works.

Saturday, September 17, 2005, 9:03:09 AM, you wrote:


> Original poster: Jim Lux <<mailto:jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> At 11:15 AM 9/16/2005, you wrote:

>>Original poster: Illicium Verum <<mailto:sebas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>sebas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>>Hello Daniel,


>>As far as I know resistance and impedance are the same.

> Not exactly.

> Resistance is the real part of impedance. Reactance is the imaginary part.

> You could have a "ground connection" that has zero ohms resistance,

> yet have a 1000 ohm impedance (i.e. an inductor of some sort), and

> that's why the distinction is important.


>>They are both expressed in Ohm. It's just that impedance is usually

>>used to describe dampening of current in AC circuits where as

>>resistance describes the current dampening in DC circuits.

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Best regards,

Sebastiaan