In article , Richard J Kinch wrote:
Doug Miller writes:

It's certainly a more useful definition than one which equates
parallel-connected wires with a short circuit.

Yet yours requires a ground? Two hot phases can't short to each other?

Not if they're at the same potential, no.

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Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt.
And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?