Yes, and it can cause all sorts of strange problems in your house. We got hit by lighting and somehow it only affected one outlet in the whole house where TV was connected. A ball of bright light came from the outlet and traveled across the living room.
Yes
Generally circuit breaker is not designed to trip off in the event of lightning. The system has lightning arrestors which reroute the lightning effect to earth instantly. If there are no lightning arrestors then the equipment are likely to fail upon a lightning strike.
A lightning strike could cause the electrical system to short out - making the engines stop. The blimp would then have to make a 'controlled landing'
The trip time for a GFCI is from 15 to 30 milliseconds.
In a word NO, that will not cause either GFCI to trip. The correct term is GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter)
Yes
Generally circuit breaker is not designed to trip off in the event of lightning. The system has lightning arrestors which reroute the lightning effect to earth instantly. If there are no lightning arrestors then the equipment are likely to fail upon a lightning strike.
A lightning strike could cause the electrical system to short out - making the engines stop. The blimp would then have to make a 'controlled landing'
The trip time for a GFCI is from 15 to 30 milliseconds.
In a word NO, that will not cause either GFCI to trip. The correct term is GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter)
A down stream receptacle that is connected to the upstream GFCI will be protected. If the downstream receptacle senses a fault the upstream GFCI will trip.
GFCI receptacle are designed to trip on 5 milliamps.
Every time you trip the GFCI, the power to the device plugged into it will lose its supply voltage.
The GFCI is measuring leakage current to ground, so if no current is flowing it won't trip.
no it will only decrease the current carrying capability
A GFCI is not an overcurrent protection device. It only protects people from electrical shock. However, if you were to create a perfect hot to neutral short the GFCI would not trip and the panel breaker would.
A GFCI receptacle can pass it's "protection" to other outlets wired from it. If the GFCI trips, all outlets wired from it will "trip" also. A GFCI tripping will not necessarily trip the circuit breaker in the service panel.