Surge / Ground / Lightning
In alt.engineering.electrical Timothy Daniels wrote:
| "Tony Hwang" wrote:
| You seem to be confused between current flow(energy) and voltage(poential)
| Nothing flows in an open circuit. If not we
| have to rewrite Ohm's law. Show your credential to make a
| stamement like that.
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| You're forgetting RF frequencies - which can flow (back
| and forth) quite readily in an open circuit such as a transmitter
| tower, whip antenna, or transmission line, or building power
| wiring, steel frame, etc.
I think they intentionally ignored it. Well, maybe Mr. Terrell actually
forgot.
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