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Your analogy works for airflow in Dust Collection too, Chuck.That's always the analogy I've used too Andy. Water is like the amp and the pipe pressure is like the voltage and pipe size and elbows and changes in diameter is like the ohm. There are a few correlations to it such as adding a wire to a circuit is like adding a tee to a water line and going up a wire size or pipe size makes it flow easier.
The problem with trying to explain lots of things I've noticed has nothing to do with how simple it is. It has to do with how complex the person you are explaining it to thinks the problem is. The more complex they think it is, the less likely they are to understand your explanation.
Corona discharge?Andy:
Good points. The real difference is that water leaks, electricity doesn't.
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When I lived next to the power line right of way, You could stand under the power lines and hold a florescent tube overhead and it would light up.
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Just beyond our back property line there are those high voltage power lines. And, what you say is true. We tried it. My BIL was a big gear electrician before he retired and moved to the ranch next to ours. He toyed with the idea of setting some sort of device under them and getting free power. He never did it. Couldn't figure out how to hide it.>Corona discharge?[/QUOT
When I lived next to the power line right of way, You could stand under the power lines and hold a florescent tube overhead and it would light up.
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I took electronics in school. When soldering the high voltage on old style TVs if you left a 'point' in the joint, it could 'leak'. A rounded joint was necessary. You could hear a really bad one fizz.Paul:
Appreciate the note on the corona discharge. Forgot about that one.
I heard of a guy somewhere here in BC that put a fence up under a high voltage line and installed on insulators. He ran a wire from it to his house but all he could use it for was a heating load because he couldn't control the current. If the wind blew the wires around it would fluctuate. I heard Hydro caught on that there was a drain somewhere and found him and shut it down. I think one of the points they made to him was that someone who didn't know better could walk up and touch the fence and possibly be electrocuted.Just beyond our back property line there are those high voltage power lines. And, what you say is true. We tried it. My BIL was a big gear electrician before he retired and moved to the ranch next to ours. He toyed with the idea of setting some sort of device under them and getting free power. He never did it. Couldn't figure out how to hide it.>![]()
A cousin down the road a mile had a sawmill next to a 130KVA line and Hydro warned him to store his logs perpendicular to the line and not parallel with it to avoid setting up a potential induction circuit.
I've always found that once you let the smoke out of anything electrical, it just didn't work the same....I took electronics in school. When soldering the high voltage on old style TVs if you left a 'point' in the joint, it could 'leak'. A rounded joint was necessary. You could hear a really bad one fizz.