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On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:49:52 -0500, bud--
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Capacitive /inductive vs resistive coupling to ground. You can have
insulation good for 50,000 volts on a 110 device and still get an
inbalance on startup if the inductive OR capacitive reactance is too
high.
How many feet of 12/2 with ground romex does it take to get 5mA of
'leakage' current?


Several hundred feet

Sounds reasonable.

And sounds kinda unlikely you would get a trip from capacitive reactance.

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