On Jun 22, 7:32*pm, jamesgangnc wrote:
On Jun 22, 12:50*pm, harry wrote:





On Jun 22, 3:31*pm, jamesgangnc wrote:

On Jun 22, 10:23*am, Jules Richardson

wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:18:54 -0700, Pavel314 wrote:
This is a theoretical electrical question, not something I actually plan
to do. Say somebody wants to run a new circuit from the breaker box to
one special outlet, like for a microwave oven or window air conditioner
or something like that. Being an ecconomical sort, this guy decides that
instead of buying the proper gauge wire for the job, he'll use up some
14 gauge wire which is lying around from a previous job, but run two hot
lines and two ground lines in parallel, as diagrammed below.

That's essentially the way it's done in the UK; wiring is run such that
outlets sit on a ring circuit rather than a radial from the service panel
(consumer unit in UK parlance). See:

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_circuit

I'm sure it violates all sorts of rules this side of the Pond :-)

cheers

Jules

Only the brits could come up with something like this. *Seems the wiki
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There are no problems with it. *I was once an electrician.- Hide quoted text -

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This is Wiki. We don't know who wrote this. There are millions of
these systems been in use for sixty years. There aren't any
problems, I have read through the "problems" page and can only
conclude the writer is not an electrical engineer. Most of the
problems outlined also apply to radial circuits, some are non
existant. Except maybe for the problem of foreign electricians. They
would be working illegally. I think you have this problem too with
Mexicans.