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Wild_Bill Wild_Bill is offline
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Default How does the typical mains power connect in the USA anyway?

After shuffling across the carpet in your slippers, a spark is created when
you touch a doorknob.

Following the flawed concept of "return" as a circuit concept, the spark
goes where? It travels thru a wooden door, it's hinges, the door frame,
building structure etc, to earth ground?

Or, is the spark injected into the human, from a resulting high ground
potential? Ground, (often mistakenly understood as having zero/no potential)
is lurking in doorknobs waiting to zap some unsuspecting doofus.

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"Harold W." wrote in message
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Wild_Bill scrit:

It is aburd to belive that power is returned thru many miles of
distribution
gear and back to the generation source, or that it's returned thru the
soil.


The guy gfretwell showed us a few amps of current heading directly into
the ground.

Where did those few amps come from, and where did they go?