Interesting. So do you mean that both of those wires are live? Like if i touch any of them, i'd get electric shock? In where i live, that is not the case. If i touch the neutral wire, there is no energy.Mains wires should not be referred to as + and -. Those labels apply to a DC circuit, while mains is (almost always) AC, so the polarity reverses 100 or 120 times a second.[/list]
So we have three wires in our electrical outlets. One is + (they call it phase here) which is the live wire. The other one is - (they call it neutral here) which is the one that completes the circuit. And the third one is the earth (ground) wire. In your explanation, you say ground completes the circuit. Then what is the wire that we call ground here? Did we misname it?
By the way i am no electrician, so i have a cave man's understanding of the whole thing.
Statistics: Posted by jason_kidd — Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:13 pm
