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CJT

T. Rex wrote:

In article ,
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Doug Miller wrote:

In article , HerHusband wrote:

Whether resistive or inductive, how can you have current flow unless the
circuit is completed?

Back-EMF can flow through the neutral wire because the neutral is connected to
ground at the breaker box.

Open the hot wire and current shouldn't flow through
the neutral either, unless there really was a fault in the wiring
somewhere?

Back-EMF from the collapsing magnetic field in the motor windings when it's
switched off.

You basically have a 2 wire inductor. You are saying that when the
circuit is broken, magnetic field collapse produces a current flow in
one wire that is not equal to the current flow in the other wire. You
may be in line for a Nobel Prize. Or maybe not.

Pay attention this time. The currents _at_the_GFCI_ are unequal, because
one of the two wires is not connected to the GFCI.

.... or anything else, for that matter (except one side of the switch).

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