excalibur Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 id="Stencil">[:-magnify Hey ,is someone can tell me inverse electrical polarities in electrical outlet represent a significant danger for the occupants or dose it affect the integrity of the performance of any circuits or something else ? Thanks for now ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Hi, Reversed polarity means that power is flowing through the item being powered before it reaches the on-off switch. So, when you turn the switch off and think the unit isn't charged, it is. An over-simplified scenario - The lights over the mirror in your bathroom aren't bright enough and you decide to change the bulbs. You turn the light off at the switch and are standing there on the wet bathroom floor removing the bulbs one-by-one and installing new ones, when suddenly you happen to touch the outer bulb socket rim and are electrocuted and left there dead on the floor. Why? Because the lights over the mirror were wired with the polarity reversed. As soon as you touched the socket rim, which you thought was de-energized because you'd turned off power to the lights at the switch, your finger touching that energized socket ring and your bare feet on the damp floor provided a ground path and electricity took a short cut through your body back to earth. You're dead - all because someone carelessly reversed two wires. Kewl, huh? ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Moore Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Mike saved me the words while I was creating this crude diagram... Another example would be a toaster, where you could still get shocked from "sticking a fork in it" even though it was "off". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excalibur Posted November 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Thanks , y'all i'll note that down . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted November 17, 2005 Report Share Posted November 17, 2005 In addition to Mike & Richard's explanations, reversed polarity can leave certain appliances exposed to voltage spikes and surges even when they're turned off. I tell people that electrical safety comes in layers. When you've got a circuit with reversed polarity, one of those layers is gone. - Jim Katen, Oregon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul burrell Posted November 17, 2005 Report Share Posted November 17, 2005 Originally posted by excalibur Thanks , y'all i'll note that down . "Y'all" is a southern term (dialect). Just wondering how it got to Canada. Paul Burrell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted November 17, 2005 Report Share Posted November 17, 2005 Originally posted by paul burrell Originally posted by excalibur Thanks , y'all i'll note that down . "Y'all" is a southern term (dialect). Just wondering how it got to Canada. Paul Burrell I'm guessing that Ron White videos have something to do with it. - Jim Katen, Oregon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian G Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 For the record, "Yall" as used and practiced by Southerners is not a contraction, it's a word all its own (like aint). They were once, but that was many decades ago. [:-graduat Brian G. Etspert on Such & Like Thangs [^] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul burrell Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 Originally posted by Brian G. For the record, "Yall" as used and practiced by Southerners is not a contraction, it's a word all its own (like aint). They were once, but that was many decades ago. [:-graduat Brian G. Etspert on Such & Like Thangs [^] [/quote The old south has indeed disappeared in to the past. We have been over run by those that in the past made fun of us and our life style. Then all of a sudden the word got out or the cat got out of the bag so to speak that the south was the place to be. Now foreigners out number native southerners by far. Awrite now, you all come see us ya heah.[^] Paul Burrell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottpat Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 I think it all started with Andy Griffith! Yall come back now hear! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homnspector Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 You sure that wasn't Beverly Hillbillies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 Originally posted by paul burrell . . . Now foreigners out number native southerners by far. . . Paul Burrell Paradoxically, I think that's true pretty much everywhere in the U.S. - Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excalibur Posted November 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 my wife is from Texas thanks guys ...and she is saying hello to y'all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian G Posted November 21, 2005 Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 Strangely enough, my wife is from Illinois. I just tell people she's from SOUTHERN Illinois. [] Brian G. Momma Started Talking to Me Again After the Baby Came... [][:-dev3][] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul burrell Posted November 21, 2005 Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 Originally posted by Brian G. Strangely enough, my wife is from Illinois. I just tell people she's from SOUTHERN Illinois. [] Brian G. Momma Started Talking to Me Again After the Baby Came... [][:-dev3][] My son is married to a jewel of a Lady from New York. My Daughter "was" married to a jerk from Florida. I once dated a nice Lady from Northern Illinois. My wife was born and raised in California. I was born and raised in Georgia. So what does this mean? Maybe it means I started a mess [^]. Paul Burrell PS: A while back someone asked everyone that has not to send a picture. So here it is. Download Attachment: PAUL BURRELL.jpg 457.68 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excalibur Posted November 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2005 Talking about mess... i'm from Montreal , i met my wife in Cancun Mexico,she's from Texas Fort Worth and we now stay in Quebec. It's a pretty nice mess though ... [:-cowboy] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcramer Posted November 23, 2005 Report Share Posted November 23, 2005 Originally posted by excalibur my wife is from Texas thanks guys ...and she is saying hello to y'all If you wife was really speaking, she would be saying hello to all y'all, not y'all. That's the singular form. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excalibur Posted November 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2005 something like that Mark[:-wiltel] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailblazer Posted November 29, 2005 Report Share Posted November 29, 2005 All of those posts have been good. But for those of you who work on higher voltage systems there is the further danger of arc flash. Do a Google search for arc flash and corect your habits NOW. Square D, Littlefuse, Bussman, OSHA.gov, NEMA.org and others all have papers some have calculators. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted November 29, 2005 Report Share Posted November 29, 2005 Originally posted by Trailblazer All of those posts have been good. But for those of you who work on higher voltage systems there is the further danger of arc flash. Do a Google search for arc flash and corect your habits NOW. Square D, Littlefuse, Bussman, OSHA.gov, NEMA.org and others all have papers some have calculators. OK, I'll bite. What's the relationship between reversed polarity and the danger of arc flash? - Jim Katen, Oregon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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