I've got voltage :(

[Bifferwine]

Cool -- I will do that!

 

[reeffreak]

[Look how all these minions just run to Biff's rescue]

 

[Bifferwine]

[Look how all these minions just run to Biff's rescue]

I'm a damsel in distress!!

 

[bjohanson1234]

I'm a damsel in distress!!

That'll ban you if you look at her funny:mrgreen:

Those little plug things are nice. They will also tell you if the outlet is hooked up backwards too. If it is the same one I am thinking of

 

[VAreef]

Those little plug things are nice. They will also tell you if the outlet is hooked up backwards too. If it is the same one I am thinking of

I'm no electrician but how much stuff actually cares which is power and which is nuetral on the outlets? I know motors, and heaters really don't. I have seen some circuit boards have a polarity sensitivity but at least some home computers don't. Very little of the stuff I work on cares about polarity so i am actually very curious about your experiences with this.

 

[wontonflip]

I'm a damsel in distress!!

A damsel?? That explains your cut throat attitude ;)

 

[bjohanson1234]

I'm no electrician but how much stuff actually cares which is power and which is nuetral on the outlets? I know motors, and heaters really don't. I have seen some circuit boards have a polarity sensitivity but at least some home computers don't. Very little of the stuff I work on cares about polarity so i am actually very curious about your experiences with this.

Nothing really cares since AC is a sine wave. It is more for a safety stand point. The nuetral is bonded to ground in the first electrical panel in a house. So if you have one guy hooking up the outlets one way and another hooking them up another, you can potentially cause a short some where along the line.

Circuit boards tend to run mostly on DC power once it goes through the transformer. So it might matter which one is the nuetral on them since they might have some electrical connection to it on them.

 

[VAreef]

Ah that makes sense I actually knew about the bonding nuetral to ground in main panel. Never occured to me that it could cause a short. But sure enough you cross those wires on the same circuit you will get one.

 

[rwynn]

I'm with Wonton on this one, ask for something to be coded and I'll whip it up, I'll even build small computers out of circuits and logic gates, but actually working with electricity has a tendancy to loose me quickly.

 

[wontonflip]

Come on, ladies! One of us on this forum has to redeem our gender and know this stuff! :grumble:

I'm with Wonton on this one, ask for something to be coded and I'll whip it up, I'll even build small computers out of circuits and logic gates, but actually working with electricity has a tendancy to loose me quickly.

My hubby has one of those electricity kits that he's going to teach our kids on sometime....I'm staring at it and I still don't get it :) I actually get the open/close circuit thing, but when it comes down to calculating stuff, fuggedaboudit.

 

[mng777777]

Come on, ladies! One of us on this forum has to redeem our gender and know this stuff! :grumble:



My hubby has one of those electricity kits that he's going to teach our kids on sometime....I'm staring at it and I still don't get it :) I actually get the open/close circuit thing, but when it comes down to calculating stuff, fuggedaboudit.

:) That's what you have us here for!

 

[motorcyclereefer]

Did you ever find out what caused the voltage? Or did I just miss that part of the thread?

 

[VAreef]

She had a bad grounding bar. Wasn't grounding out the tank allowing that static voltage to build up.

 

[motorcyclereefer]

Ok, I just went back several pages and saw where she found the problem.

 

[Bifferwine]

Yep, that was exactly it. NDB rigged up a homemade grounding rod that I'm using in the meantime. I'm going to order a new one this weekend, and probably new powerheads since they are leaking a lot of voltage.