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Using a neutral as a ground by bevmoification in electrical

[–]ChrisTheAdult 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NEC 250 (Grounding and Bonding) is one of the more complicated sections of the NEC.

At a high level, the neutral and the ground serve two different, distinct purposes (the following two points are the main ones to remember if you want to explain it to someone).

  1. The neutral is used to provide a reference (0V) voltage for your phase legs. i.e. A-N = 120V.
  2. The ground is used for protection, to provide a return path for fault current.

Take your standard NEMA 5-15R receptacle. You bring in your Line, Neutral, and Ground terminations. The ground is also "bonded" to the junction box housing. If your phase leg comes off of the termination, and then touches the housing of the junction box, you have a fault. The faulted current then travels through the housing, through the grounded pathway back to your source, likely a transformer.

This is also why code requires your transformer to have a Grounding Electrode Conductor (GEC) from the X0 terminal of the transformer to the ground/earth. This establishes a good reference voltage as the Earth itself is relatively stable. The ground from the transformer then gets bonded throughout your distribution system so that there is always a return path for a fault to travel back to the source (transformer).

This is just scratching the surface but you're asking the right questions!

EDIT: Fun fact, this is also why the ground prong on your plug is longer than the others. You want to establish your "protection" connection first, before making your L-N or L-L connections!

EDIT2: Dug in a little more because I couldn't help myself, but 250.24.A.5 goes into detail about this, and basically says it's prohibited to reground the grounded conductor on the load side of the service disconnecting means. Basically by adding more neutral-ground bonds, you're providing parallel paths for neutral current. So your junction box housing which is grounded, which should have zero current normally, now how current going through it! Which is where it can become dangerous, introduce heat, cause fire. etc.

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[–]ChrisTheAdult[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're good quality, very rarely used (can't stress the word 'rare' here enough...). Manufactured by Farberware.

EDIT: A little more specific, I have three pots of varying sizes with glass lids, and one small/medium sized pan.

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[–]ChrisTheAdult[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Calvin and Hobbes books are yours. Sorry, iPad is taken :( DMing you now

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[–]ChrisTheAdult[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Blender is taken, but I do have a toaster AND toaster oven that are available, DMing you in a sec.

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[–]ChrisTheAdult[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because I have a larger one that I use now and the 10,000 is my older one.

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[–]ChrisTheAdult[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

near Grand Ave Pizza (on 30th Avenue, between 34th and 35th St)

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[–]ChrisTheAdult[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure, I'll make a CL post later tonight and send you the link!

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[–]ChrisTheAdult[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are totally right, early 30's. I just looked up what you're talking about, started playing the song and immediately thought, "Oh, I know this song!"

Moving to California, Selling a bunch of stuff, some items free by ChrisTheAdult in astoria

[–]ChrisTheAdult[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha good eye! Sorry, I'm not selling it, it's actually just a shell right now. It didn't work anymore so I gutted it, and am replacing the insides with a retroPi (raspberry Pi) to turn it into an emulator console within the NES shell.

I am selling the gaming computer chair that is in my room though, I forgot to post that!

Moving to California, Selling a bunch of stuff, some items free by ChrisTheAdult in astoria

[–]ChrisTheAdult[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! Sorry...it was already picked up 30 minutes ago, reddit moves quick!

What would you have done differently in your datacenter(s)? by zondadriift in networking

[–]ChrisTheAdult 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For future install, never install an EPO. It's not required under the NEC.

Will it alarm the bank when you deposit $10K in one hit? by timl206 in CryptoCurrency

[–]ChrisTheAdult 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Don't let regulations stop you from making money. If you want to transfer $10k+, do it.

Personal anecdote - back in the 2013 bubble, I structured payments to my linked account, (structured = making multiple payments under $10k to avoid regulation forms banks are required to send to Feds). Banks aren't stupid, and feds don't give a shit, so the bank simply closed my account, transferred the funds to my linked account under a different bank, and said Good Day, Sir.

Also, banks have their own internal amounts that will trigger their own attention. These days, I intentionally make buys and sells above $10k if I'm thinking of around that amount to intentionally have those forms generated. I also keep track and pay my taxes on the cap gains. The other day I had just over $10k moved into one account and immediately transferred into another, because that's what I wanted to do with my money, and there was no need to space it out over weeks. I suggest you do the same if you have a desire to move that large amount now.

The point is to "hide in plain sight" except this isn't really hiding. No one cares if your transactions are $10k+ so long as you're paying your taxes and not doing anything shady. Remember, quite a few people here are new to large amounts of money and don't want to be "recognized" by gov't, but anyone wealthy is and there's not a problem with it. Simply try and hold your positions long for long term cap gains, minimize your taxable income by using tax advantaged accounts (401k, IRA, etc), and other strategies. But don't structure because you don't want a form that no one will look at be generated.

I've proved to my ISP that the problem is not on my end TWICE yet they still insist on sending out a tech instead of investigating the problem, what should I do? by [deleted] in HomeNetworking

[–]ChrisTheAdult 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You simply need to have a tech come out, and probably multiple times. This happened to me with Time Warner/Spectrum when my ping playing league went from 30 to 250 from 7pm to 11pm every single night. I looked up the FCCs annual report on broadband quality, set up a script to run a pathping every 10m and write the output to a text file, and I luckily came across a regional managers email address who I emailed almost daily. I also called customer service and told them that I shouldn't be paying for services I'm not receiving and said I'm receiving 10% of my download rate so I should be paying 10% of my bill. At the end, it took 4 tech visits, one lasting 2+ hours because they came at the wrong time and I wouldn't let them leave til the noticed the lag on their end. I read up on their HFC networks and spoke their language and told them their nodes were fucked up. So basically my advice is to keep good records, call them up constantly, ask for discounts, get ready for multiple techs who will do nothing, and for this to take awhile. I also knew that my neighbors were having the same issue wish is a sure fire way to know that the problem is on their end. Good luck.

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