Neutral and its Balanced load
Hi, I see the neutral or the grounded conductor current flow as always being referred to
as the unbalanced current.
I think the term unbalanced load is confusing to those who have never studied simple
basic electrical circuits and do not have good understanding of them.
I 'm talking about voltages aiding and apposing each other in a circuit. The Buck Boost
transformer takes advantage of these effects.
An example would be to take three 1.5 Volt flash light batteries in series in the correct
polarity and it would equal 4.5 volts. 1.5 + 1.5 +1.5=4.5 volts
Now reverse the polarity of any one battery of the three and you create an opposing
voltage of 1.5 volts and now you will have a voltage of 1.5 volts. 1.5 +1.5=3 volts
3-1.5=1.5 volts
I understand that tapping the center of a transformer winding such as the
120/240 volt Edison system we use in our residential single phase, not two phase we
create a conductor on which the current will be completely nullified if the load from line
#1 to the neutral and line #2 to the neutral are exactly equal. And these voltages are of
opposite polarity of each other in the neutral conductor, and not out of phase.
I think when students are referred to the unbalanced current they should know that the
neutral or grounded circuit conductor and one of the lines if wired as a two wire circuit,
are just that a simple two wire circuit.
Thanks
Hi, I see the neutral or the grounded conductor current flow as always being referred to
as the unbalanced current.
I think the term unbalanced load is confusing to those who have never studied simple
basic electrical circuits and do not have good understanding of them.
I 'm talking about voltages aiding and apposing each other in a circuit. The Buck Boost
transformer takes advantage of these effects.
An example would be to take three 1.5 Volt flash light batteries in series in the correct
polarity and it would equal 4.5 volts. 1.5 + 1.5 +1.5=4.5 volts
Now reverse the polarity of any one battery of the three and you create an opposing
voltage of 1.5 volts and now you will have a voltage of 1.5 volts. 1.5 +1.5=3 volts
3-1.5=1.5 volts
I understand that tapping the center of a transformer winding such as the
120/240 volt Edison system we use in our residential single phase, not two phase we
create a conductor on which the current will be completely nullified if the load from line
#1 to the neutral and line #2 to the neutral are exactly equal. And these voltages are of
opposite polarity of each other in the neutral conductor, and not out of phase.
I think when students are referred to the unbalanced current they should know that the
neutral or grounded circuit conductor and one of the lines if wired as a two wire circuit,
are just that a simple two wire circuit.
Thanks