Comments by "ke6gwf - Ben Blackburn" (@ke6gwf) on "The US electrical system is not 120V" video.

  1.  Joe Kinchicken  that doorbell transformer is a knockout mount, meaning that all the 110 volt circuitry is inside the panel and only 24v is accessible from the outside, so there's nothing wrong with that. The hanging wire on the other hand... Sheesh
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  2. Major error at 6:55. You state that the center wire is Ground, which is simply wrong lol Ground will be bare or green marked. Neutral is white marked. Technically in official language it would be a GroundED Conductor, whereas the green or bare wire would be the GroundING Conductor. And while both are connected to the earth ground rod, neither have any function requiring it under normal circumstances. Earth ground is exclusively there to drain off static charge and lightning, and has nothing to do otherwise with the operation of the electrical system (thus why you can operate off a generator or inverter with no ground rod) So that center wire is a bonded neutral, meaning that it's bonded to the Grounding Conductor, and having nothing to do with the ground rod, because you wire rvs, boats, planes, ships etc the same way, no ground rod needed. Also, other than the mentioned static buildup or lightning, no current will ever flow to the ground rod. As a matter of fact, the resistance of the ground rod is so high, that you could take a hot wire from a 15 or 20 amp breaker and attach it to the ground rod, and not enough current will flow to trip the breaker! And while none of this may seem important, I think that you would agree that using the correct name for things is important, especially when trying to do an instructional video. It's also important since many people think that current flows to the ground rod lol Oh, and the purpose of bonding the neutral and ground wire is simply to give a path back to the power plant via the neutral for any current on the ground wire from a shirt circuit, allowing the breaker to trip. If the ground wire was only connected to the ground rod, the breaker would never trip because almost no current would flow.
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