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Yes the neutral is ground basically. Where I am from we have installations differently. phase and neutral come in the box, they go through a loss breaker(RCD)
by Freestyler_3 10y ago
Yes the neutral is ground basically.
Where I am from we have installations differently.
phase and neutral come in the box, they go through a loss breaker(RCD) and then split up in to multiple breakers.
Then those wires go to the socket.
Then near the box there is a metal rod in the ground with a wire going to the box, this wire connects to the ground wires coming from sockets.
The ground wire, is not connected to anything but things that are not supposed to have any power flowing through.
Yes Neutral is grounded (outside my house, on the main)
But when we say we ground things we mean the third connection.
Sorry, didn't know it was so different over there.
edit: Saw the correct name for the "loss breaker" in other post, it is RCD :)
edit: Question, what happens if you hold the neutral to the ground wire there?
- lightedman 10y agoYup, it's different over here. RCD (we call if GFCI here in the USA) tends to be built directly into the outlet, main breakers installed at the box. You guys generally tend to run 240/277V series-ring wire runs, though, yes? We run parallel circuits here.
- Freestyler_3 10y ago240V, What we usually do here is run wires to a light point and fan out from there (the light fixture has a small box above it), small rooms can be grouped together by connecting the two boxes. Heavy appliance sockets get separate circuits, and kitchens usually have most circuits. So parallel mostly.