Electrical Q

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by outacontrol

WTF!

IS THERE A REASON YOU ARE MOCKING WHAT I AM SAYING? DO YOU HAVE ANY ELECTRICAL TRAINING?
I helped you when you could not get your 3-way switching working. Not impressed at all.
Did you read any of that link that I posted? A GFCI does not function any other way than I described it measures the current on the 2 current carrying wires (the hot and the neutral that you like to call them). It does not measure or check for current on the bare bonding wire (or ground as you like to call it) at all. Period no questions about it.

Whoa there dude. Please be assured I am not mocking you. Not in the least. In fact rather the opposite, I am trying to use your electrical knowledge in an effort to better understand something I saw. I think your issue is the fact I asked if if it's hard to say. I didn't mean that as mockery, I really meant that at face value - is it hard to say if the static discharge was responsible for a GFCI trip? The reflector was most assuredly grounded, so the zap of the static absolutely did travel down the ground wire. I was merely asking if it was a possibility that GFCI's could be tripped by more than input condition.

Breathe easy my friend. I will buy you a coffee or whatever your favourite equivalent beverage may be one day should we ever meet in person. How a GFCI works is less important to me than whether they work at all. It was only curiosity on my part.

At any rate however ... regardless of how a GFCI trips, a pump shouldn't trip the GFCI. Now that it's confirmed that the pump itself seems faulty (ie., confirmed trip on a different GFCI) I'm afraid the end result for Christy is that she needs to replace her pump. Sorry Christy. FWIW, I had to garbage can a couple mag drives too over the years for the same reason. It's too bad, they are otherwise really reliable workhorses.

[DiverDude]

*sigh* TWO errors in one post....what WILL I do with me ?

First, I stand corrected by outtacontrol. How I described the function of the GFCI was what had been taught to me by someone who should know better (an electrical engineering professor). However, schematics trump credentials and I now know better -my apologies for the mis-information !

Second, someone give a free frag to Gary for paying attention. He is correct, Neutral is the larger blade of course and I need to type slower or think faster. More mis-information; more apologies -only this time I can't blame anyone but myself.