hot line power being drawn through ground
hot line power being drawn through ground
(OP)
A customer sent back a motor for repair claiming it intermittently wouldn't run. We took it apart and found nothing suspect. The only thing we saw was the customer had put his own plug on the cord and had wired it wrong. The hot lead for the motor was connected to the ground of the plug. The ground wire for the motor was hooked up to the nuetral blade of the plug. So, if the customer's receptacle was wired correctly, this motor would have pulled its power through the ground circuit. Would this cause some intermittent operation?






RE: hot line power being drawn through ground
William
RE: hot line power being drawn through ground
MOTOR Facility
HOT GROUND
NUET HOT
GRND NUET
Yes, it would be sinking its consumed power to earth.
Yuck! BAD, Bad, bad.
(never mind as a kid I ran a 3hp compressor this way, dirt would steam if wet)
The intermittant-ness could be a lot of things with these inept plug wirers.
Did they wire their facility? <shudder>
RE: hot line power being drawn through ground
RE: hot line power being drawn through ground
RE: hot line power being drawn through ground