Charlie,
Don't laugh. It sounds like one of the two voltage feeds became
disconnected, for whatever reason. Since lighting circuits are connected
from a "hot" buss to the ground, and the load is usually distributed to the
two feeds evenly, then, yes, you can loose half your lighting power.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Charles Geilfuss" <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Purchase of new camera case successful
> All this talk of electricity reminds me of something that happened to me
> about 10 years ago. Now mind you I know little about electricity...make a
> circuit, series, parallel...that's about it. We had just moved into a new
> house and one night around 9 pm half the lights went out; a few rooms
> downstairs and a few rooms upstairs and on opposite sides of the house.
> What
> the heck? I checked the breaker box and nothing had tripped. I called the
> builder at home and he had no idea either (I should have known better). I
> called the power company and they showed up about an hour later. I met
> them
> in the yard and asked how the hell do you lose half your power? He
> chuckled
> and said...
>
> Charlie
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > You're a funny guy. When I was in broadcasting, we would have power
>> > problems, and call the electric company. Because of our business and
>> > electricity use, they would usually look into things, but the final
>> answer
>> > was almost always, You have to take what you get.
>>
>>
>>
>> The biggest problem broadcasters face with electrical power is proper
>> earth-grounding. In some areas of the country, you can be as far away as
>> seven miles from the nearest electrical earth ground. Grounding an
>> antenna
>> is one thing, because you create your own ground field that had to only
>> be
>> a
>> certain size in relation to the wavelength of the broadcasted signal. But
>> for electrical power as well as static drainage, you need to be able to
>> essentially get into the conductive soils. In parts of this world, there
>> are
>> no conductive soils suitable for static drainage. Because you can't get
>> the
>> tower to drain static properly, it becomes a lightning magnet.
>>
>> This is a huge problem in areas of coal mining. For some reason the
>> ground
>> in these areas is antithetical to static drainage. A lightning strike can
>> travel literally miles underground before eventually finding its way to
>> earth ground. A problem that the coal mining industry has fought forever.
>>
>> AG
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