Posted by George Marsh on January 07, 2013 at 19:17:15 from (50.104.202.156):
In Reply to: Re: OT 110 from 220 posted by old on January 07, 2013 at 17:13:35:
OLD, My dad was born in 1920. Some where between 1938-40 he attended a tech school to learn how to wire houses. I think it was called rod and tube. There was a bare wire running in the attic. When it went through a board, there was an insulator installed in the wood so the bare wire didn't touch the wood. Talk about being safe.
Now, this is going to cause a stir, I'm sure. Dad said that farmers would run only one power wire to a water pump. The other wire on the pump was tied to the well pipe. Sacry right? Made cows jump? Of course, they were not breaking any NEC codes, because there wasn't any NEC at the time.
Fast forward to 2009. REMC runs two wires down the west side of my property, which at the time was under water. We had a storm and the wires get knocked down. The REMC boys connected only the power wire and for over 2 years the other wire was on the ground. So just the power wire is going to the transformer that powers my house in the country. No one got killed, the world didn't come to an end, house didn't burn down, nothing in the house blew up. This reminded me of my dad's story of the farmer powering up his pump with just one wire.
I realize it takes two wires to complete the path for electricity to flow. The current powering up my transformer had to be going to the earth's ground. Call it want you want, ground, common, neutral. It worked with just one power wire and a grounding rod for over 2 years.
REMC had to be reminded that one of their wires was on the ground and the theifs hadn't take it. REMC finally got around to fixing it this past summer.
I would never drive a rod in the ground to make 110v, but it was done in my dad's day. REMC was using just a grounding rod from 2009 to 2012.
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