Re: [APD] Odnos (2)

["S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>]

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--- Jerry Baker <jerry at bakerweb_biz> wrote:

> S. Hieber wrote:
> > The sensor detects any diff in the amount of current
> > flowing in the Hot and Neutral wires. Electrically
> > downstream from the sensor are the sockets that are
> > integral to the GFCI. If the device controls other
> devices
> > on the power circuit, then the power supply wires
> leaving
> > the GFCI are also downstream from the sensor. If the
> GFCI
> > controls only the sockets integral to it and and no
> others
> > on the circuit, then the power supplys lines from the
> the
> > GFCI are electrically upstream of the sensor(and some
> GFCIs
> > have terminals that allow them to be connected this
> way).
> > Despite the relationship of the sensor to the power
> supply
> > circuit, all the sockets are in parallel and get the
> same
> > 110-120 V across Hot and Neutral.
> > 
> 
> So you mean the whole circuit could be parallel, but the
> "sub-circuit" 
> might have been in series? If so, same difference to me.
> I just thought 
> it was strange that breaking the circuit in one socket
> would cut off 
> power to other sockets on the other side of the room. I
> have never seen 
> that before or after. Keep in mind that, by "socket", I
> mean the whole 
> receptacle - the box located at that particular place on
> the wall. There 
> were no other sockets with a GFCI, and AFAIK, nothing
> else in the 
> apartment was on that particular circuit.
> 
> If that isn't what you meant, I am having a terrible time
> visualizing 
> how a device in a parallel circuit can cut power to other
> devices 
> located somewhere else on that circuit. Can you please
> make an 
> illustration so I can visualize it? Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Jerry Baker
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