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It’s an ultimatum that hits at Republicans’ narrow margins in the Senate (which will be wider when the new Congress starts in January).

The customer wasn’t pleased. I had obviously done something wrong. I showed them the paperwork with the specifications showing that the input to the dimmers was to be 20 amps. They insisted that their electrician knew better than I did.

Pools have come a long way. It used to be you had a pump and if you were lucky it had a mechanical timer switch on it. That was it. Now you have digital controllers and spa jets and heaters. You can even get them that connect to your home automation system. If your pool isn’t new enough to do that already, you can get a range of add-on accessories. For a price. [Rob] paid $500 to get a remote for his pool. It wasn’t even WiFi, just a simple RF remote. In 3 years, the transmitter had burned out ($300 to replace) and he decided he had enough. For $20, [Rob] added MQTT control and monitoring to his pool using an ESP8266. You can see the video description of the project below.

We, uh, we don’t have sauna heaters down here. We have air conditioners In semi-related news, it was forecast to be 40C today…

With mains electricity, always work one handed or wear live like I did in the day, 11KV gloves when testing 11KV circuits via test probes.

It will only trip the breaker if you have a bonded ground. Soil resistivity has everything to do with it, and is the reason most homes have bonded grounds (the soil resistivity is too high to provide adequate current flow to trip a standard breaker). Unless you have a GFI on that circuit you can still get shocked. Earth ground won’t help you until the voltage gets high enough to cause enough current to flow to trip a standard breaker, and NEC requirements set the limit on earth ground resistivity, the limit they set ends up equaling a voltage of 600 volts required to trip a standard breaker, and that is why most (single family) homes have bonded grounds. Earth ground is only for high voltage transients.

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With the start capacitor out of the circuit, the motor becomes a permanent split capacitance (PSC) motor in the running mode only.

I don’t know where your grid is, but in North America, high voltage lines are not 100 kV. 19 kV and 69 kV are typical for local distribution. 115 or 138 kV for intra-city, and 230 or 500 kV for most long-haul lines, not counting the whacky HVDC or EHV stuff.

It really sounds like the issue here is only anticipating a steady load and not a cold start (figuratively and literally) when choosing componenets

Agreed, the component is under rated from the start. If you look at a datasheet from a 25A SSR from a better company you will find something like de-rating curves which really show that as you move from the ideal conditions (20C temp, infinite heatsink) you should only use a smaller load. It is pretty easy to reach a limit of half the max load in normal conditions.

And this AC vs DC case when it comes to skin effect, is a reason for why some Data centers use DC distribution, as most server products uses switch mode power supplies and therefor has an internal bridge rectifier.