[BC] Blower motor to ground...

[Burt I. Weiner]

You are correct on that point and I stand corrected.  I have run them 
from one side to the neutral.  The word ground slipped out of my fingers.

With head hanging,

Burt

At 09:24 PM 6/4/2006, you wrote:
>Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 17:07:33 -0500
>From: "Al Wolfe" <awolfe at Route24.net>
>Subject: [BC] Re: Blower motor Voltage...
>To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
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>     Technically you are correct but any real electrician would have a fit!
>Ground and neutral are not the same thing except at the entrance panel. One
>can usually run 120 VAC powered items OK using one side of the 240 VAC and
>NEUTRAL, not ground, provided both sides of the 240 are fused and broken by
>the control circuitry.
>
>     A. C. ground currents are generally bad, causes audio ground loops, hot
>chassis, any number of negative results. Amprobe your ground leads sometime
>and it may show up all kinds of interesting issues.
>
>Al
>Retired CE, electrician, gopher, etc.
>aka K9SI
>
>
> > Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 21:50:16 -0700
> > From: "Burt I. Weiner" <biwa at earthlink.net>
> > Subject: [BC] Blower motor Voltage...
> > To: broadcast at radiolists.net
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> > If you have to you can probably run the blower from one side of the
> > 220 VAC control ladder to ground.
> >
> > Burt

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