This video has had something like seventeen bogus beginnings.
I've gone down various hare openings attempting to comprehend a lot of things,
also, I had at one guide submitted toward making an altogether unique video therefore!
Yet, at that point I ran into various theoretical obstacles
that I don't have the energy to address at this moment
so we're back to the straightforward extent of that initial one.
Presently, I'm going to be straightforward here, my central matter with this video is to address a complaint
I have with how the remainder of the world appears to comprehend the United States
(what's more, more comprehensively North American) electrical framework.
While the facts demonstrate that we have horrible, scarcely satisfactory repository plans
furthermore, our pots are more slow than yours,
here's a reality about us that I think will blow a couple of wires out there;
The US is a 240 volt country.
I can hear a ton of you going
whaaaa???? [with unpleasant humming and other audio effects added]
However, it's actual!
We have 240V in our electrical boards and available to us.
You've found out about our fixation on cooling, correct?
Did you truly believe we're cooling our affected McMansions with a machine we just
plug into a normal power source?
No.
What's more, a few of us have electric ovens,
electric water radiators,
garments dryers,
and surprisingly electric vehicle charging now!
We're not doing those things with a measly 15 amps at 120 volts (Or 1800 watts).
How are we getting along it, at that point?
How about we go on an outing to the next room where I have a standard US administration board we can take a gander at.
[electrical humming] Here's a standard US administration board we can take a gander at!
It very well may be somewhat difficult to hear -
[humming unexpectedly stops] I'm simply joking.
I added that 60 Hz murmur in post.
Did you truly think our administration boards are a type of heartbreakingly boisterous thing?
I bet some of you did.
At any rate, this structure is a solitary family home.
That is significant due to an easily overlooked detail I'll raise later.
Presently, this little mole thing as an afterthought is a doorbell transformer - give no consideration to that
furthermore, uh, additionally, um any of the wires that may appear to be somewhat less, uh, clean than others
are crafted by me at the same time, again - not significant!
Presently inside we'll track down a primary breaker at the top and a lot of, truth be told to numerous individuals
a ridiculous number of circuit breakers taking care of individual circuits.
In any case, there's still space for two more!
The primary breaker is a 200 amp breaker.
This home in the same way as other and basically all homes worked inside the most recent couple of many years, has 200A assistance.
Presently, you may be believing that is 200A at 120V so we have 24 kilowatts available to us here.
However, no, that is 200 amps at 240 volts, so indeed
numerous homes have 48 kW to go around.
100A assistance is still genuinely regular yet that is as yet 24 kW.
A lot for more modest homes, particularly since ptroleum gas or different sorts of fuel ignition
for space warming is still very regular hereabouts.
Presently, investigate these breakers and you'll see that they have their ability imprinted on their switches
furthermore, you'll likewise see that a couple of them are… strange.
They occupy two environments for reasons unknown.
Huh.
Indeed, those are 240V circuits.
This current one's going to a garments dryer, this one to a climate control system, and so on
However, why two spaces?
That appears to be somewhat odd, isn't that right?
All things considered, the explanation it occupies two environments has to do with the bizarre way we get 240V.
You see our force transformers that feed our homes do deliver 120V.
In any case, twice! Definitely! It's bizarre! Above all, a speedy token of what transformers do;
They're undiscovered greatness under the surface the eye.
Essentially THE explanation we use AC power everywhere is that we can
go through transformers to step the voltage and down all will nilly.
All you gotta do is fold a lot of wires over an iron center, and they'll initiate an electromagnetic field
which propogates through it! At that point, fold some more wires over the center on the opposite side
also, that field will prompt a current in those wires! Essentially differ the quantity of turns of
wire around the center on each side and you can change the voltage as per that proportion!
It's really perfect!
It permits us to send power through overhead or covered electrical lines running at a large number of volts.
That allows those wires to convey a huge load of force for their size,
since while the cross-sectional territory of some random conductor influences how a lot
current it can securely convey, when you knock the voltage far up you can convey more force
(that is watts) with a similar measure of current and accordingly a generally little link.
This permits us to send control over significant distances monetarily in the close megavolt range.
Substations will step that down to a more sensible 11 or perhaps 32 *thousand* volts
for neighborhood dissemination,
furthermore, just before it enters your home it is ventured somewhere near a last transformer which
conveys the last, moderately low voltage to your home.
Presently, regularly, you simply a few wires up to the finishes of the optional twisting of
the transformer and punch out.
That is the thing that you'll discover in many nations all throughout the planet
when managing standard single-stage electric assistance.
[whispers] We're simply going to disregard three-stage for this moment.
The optional winding produces a 240V potential and in this manner
you get 240V out of that transformer.
Furthermore, in all honesty, that is actually what our transformers do!
They produce 240V on the optional twisting, very much like yours.
However, the abnormal piece is that
This is America.
We're not going to make due with attaching a measly two wires to our transformers.
That is basically unpatriotic.
No, we should have three.
That is one more and in this way better.
Clearly.
This is the place where the unusual quality occurs!
Our transformers don't simply have taps on the finishes of the optional winding.
We put a third, focal tap right in the center,
or on the other hand place, of that twisting in its center.
What's more, that middle tap gets referred to Earth,
what's more, that is the thing that characterizes our nonpartisan.
Doing this makes what is called part stage power.
We end up with what acts like there are two 120V possibilities
180 degrees out of stage from each other.
Across both of those and nonpartisan you get 120V,
be that as it may, when you go across the two stages you end up with the full 240V the transformer is delivering.
So now we should return to the electrical board.
I will remove the cover from it so you can perceive what's happening inside.
This is the part where I say
Try not to Try This At Home!
There are numerous things inside this container that can murder you in the event that you contact them.
I have a genuinely decent comprehension of what those threats are in here;
adequate to run a couple of new circuits without harming myself or torching the house
with, up until now, a 100% achievement rate.
However, this isn't something to mess with.
I'm showing you mine so you don't have to see yours.
Kay?
Okay. Here's the place where the enchantment occurs.
I know, to those of you in Europe this looks frightfully gross and horrendously perilous yet
that is OK. We're adapting.
Up at the top there are three meaty links coming in.
Those come from the meter box outside in any case from the transformer.
The two external links are both live at 120V potential to ground.
The center link is, helpfully,
ground. And furthermore nonpartisan!
Indeed. That center link is associated with a ground bar outside
by the meter box, as well as being associated with the middle tap of the transformer.
For those that didn't have the foggiest idea about this all around, the ground plug and the nonpartisan attachment
of your plugs normally end up in a similar careful spot at last.
Here!
(also, on the opposite side)
It's abnormal and I don't wanna get into it right now since it harms my cerebrum
also, there are specific exemptions
so we're simply keeping away from that different beast altogether.
In the event that I take a voltage estimation between this link and the impartial,
you'll see that it's 120 volts (or something like that).
In the event that I measure from the other link to impartial it is additionally 120 something volts.
Recall those two sets of links are across just 50% of the transformer.
Advantageously they end up in the board in that equivalent direction.
This is the left half of the optional winding.
The correct side of the auxiliary.
What's more, the middle tap of the auxiliary.
You will possibly get a large portion of the voltage of the optional in case you're across just 50% of its length.
However, across those two external links you do truth be told get 240V. Or on the other hand close, in any case.
Those two links are at the finishes of the transformer's auxiliary so the whole potential is ther.
However, you must be across those two links, not simply across one of them and nonpartisan,
to get the maximum capacity.
What's more, that is the reason our 240V circuits are on these abnormal twofold breakers.
The drags up here feed a couple of transport bars going right down through the focal point of the board.
An electrical switch connects with that transport bar and gives an interior connect to an
yield on a screw terminal.
The breaker can intrude on the current way from the transport bar
to the terminal either physically with the switch
[two clicks as it is incited)
or on the other hand naturally on account of an overcurrent occasion.
This here is each of the a run of the mill US electrical switch is.
[click]
[clack]
It's appended distinctly to the live or hot side of the circuit.
The impartial side of any circuit goes straightforwardly back to the board.
In the event that you look in the two spaces where there aren't a breaker introduced you can see the contacts from the
transport bars that the breaker will join to.
On the lower part of the breaker, this contact
will cinch onto the transport bar, which through the switch contacts inside the breaker in the end
make it to the yield terminal here.
The other piece is simply to truly join the breaker
to the board all the more sturdily through this plastic stake thing.
The transport bars, however, aren't simply going straight down the board.
They're such an interlocking brush shape.
What this does is make it so that each substitute position
down the board is being taken care of by the contrary drag up
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