electrical house wiring questions : what do we call (whats the technical name) to the wire use in electrical house wiring connect to the switches (buttons) ? one is the hot wire (live wire) the other one is . ?what does happen if we connect a hot (live) wire with neutral wire ?what does happen if we connect a hot (live) wire with earth wire ?what does happen if we connect a hot (live) wire with another hot (live) wire ?what do we call (whats the technical name) to the wire use in electrical house wiring connect to the switches (buttons) ? one is the hot wire (live wire) the other one is . ?what does happen if we connect a hot (live) wire with a half-wire ?
Q2, BANG! Q3, BANG! Q4, BANG if they are on different phases, but nothing other than you could have them on different breakers, thus disabling the intended breaker's protection of its circuits. Q1 and Q5, reading between the lines, you must call it a half- wire. Must be a local term. So Q6, the switch will be non- functional. Whatever it is supposed to switch on and off, will be permanently on.
The support strand for the electrical feed is not the neutral, it usually does not provide a ground path, it is isolated at the house. Neutral is provided by grounding the electrical panel at your house, in some areas, this is done by connecting the electrical panel to the water pipe coming into the house, or it may be through ground rods driven into the ground (now they also used ground plates). If the water table in your area has lowered, then that is why the ground/neutral did not seem to work as well. If the ground is very dry, then there should be an array of them to give any protection. I would check the code because the panel should be grounded with a wire that is larger than a number 6. If your panel is not grounded that is a serious problem and needs to be fixed immediately. The neutral and the third wire ground are connected together at the panel to the ground wire. Breakers will not trip unless the problem is in your house, a problem outside will not cause your breakers to trip, and it is current that causes the breakers to trip, not voltage or heat. I think that possibly what happened is that the shorting of the leads to your house, then the removal of the short caused a surge in the voltage, and that was too much for the transformers. If the electrical company fixed the support wire and you described your problem, I would be very concerned that they did not verify the status of your ground, I would get a qualified electrician to check things out and give you a report. To protect your PC, I would make sure that the grounding of the outlet is very good, and to be doubly sure, I would use a GFI receptacle and a surge protecting power bar.
neutral. You have a short circuit. Hopefully a circuit breaker will pop before you have a fire. same depends. One hot may be out of phase with the other, in which case, see #2. But in any case you will be bypassing the breakers to some extent and creating a hazard. unclear what is a half-wire? .
1) called Neutral - it is uncharged and is effectively connected to earth ground. 2) Ref # 1 - connecting a charged (live) wire with neutral is the same as connecting a charged wire with an infinite capacity (ground). The current flow is maximum (tends toward infinity). In house wiring this would be called a direct short (circuit) and would blow the fuse or circuit breaker. 3) Same effect as # 2 above 4) hot wire with hot wire in normal house wiring answer is IT DEPENDS. Nothing would happen if the two hot wires were from the *same* 120 vac feed line. But there are TWO(2) different 120 VAC feed lines coming into each house along with a Neutral line. The two different 120 VAC lines are 180 degrees out of phase. This is so 240 volts AC can be obtained across them. This higher voltage is necessary to power certain large household appliances, motors, heat pumps, etc. Having the live sides of these two out of phase sources contact each other would make a 240 volt short circuit causing immediate shut down by circuit breaker but not without a large arc, and some likely melting of wire,etc. 5) repeat of question # 1 (see above) 6) a half-wire? This is technology I've not heard about - maybe 1 1/2 wire :)
