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Which is the Hot wire and which is the Neutral wire if the wires you see are a Black a Red and a Yellow wire?
Black red and yellow is three-phase. there is no neutral.
When does a motor not need a neutral wire?
If the motor is operated from a three phase three wire distribution system the motor will not need a neutral wire.
When upsizing wire for voltage drop how much smaller can the neutral wire be the next phase conductor?
The neutral wire should be the same size as your conducters
Is a neutral wire in a 4 wire service?
Yes, it is referred to as three phase four wire service.
How do you reduce neutral to earth voltage in three phase system?
It is done by connecting the neutral to earth at the transformer that produces the three-phase supply. If the three phase wire supply equal currents, there is no current in the neutral wire and its whole length stays at earth potential, but if there is current in the neutral it produces a small voltage on the neutral at places away from the transformer.
Is there a neutral conductor in a 3 phase 4 wire wye system?
no
What is the total of a phase to earth voltage on 11000 volts?
An 11,000 volt three-phase supply has a voltage of 6351 from live to neutral, when there is a neutral wire.
When an ac bulb glows the phase wire gives a shock when touched by hand but the neutral wire doesn't?
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Why can the neutral wire diameter be reduced in relationship to the phase wires?
The Neutral wire should be the same gauge and size of the phase wires. Only the Earth or Equipment wire can be smaller than the phase(hot) wires. <<>> On a three phase four wire distribution system the neutral can be reduced in size. The neutral only carries the unbalanced load current and should be sized to that current. The highest current load to neutral of the three legs is used to calculate the neutral sizing. There is no reduced neutral allowed on discharge lighting and non linear loads. A demand factor of 70% shall be permitted to be applied to that portion of the unbalanced load in excess of 200 A.
What conductor should be grounded in a four wire three phase system?
The neutral.
Why you take radius or size of neutral wire half wrt phase conductor?
On three phase services over 200 amps the electrical code allows the electrical contractor to reduce the size of the neutral wire . This saves the customer money. There are conditions as to how much the neutral can be reduced but it is not as low as half the supply conductors. The reason that the neutral can be reduced is that it only carries the unbalanced current on the three phase four wire system.
Why neutral wire current is more in 1-phase than the 3-phase?
On a typical house plug, there are three wires - the positive, neutral, and ground. Ideally, the positive and neutral wires carry the current (the neutral wire provides the return path for the current from the positive wire), and the ground wire carries no current. In a three phase system, you have three phase voltages of the same magnitude (ideally), but the three phase voltages are out of phase with each other by 120 degrees - meaning one is at 0 degrees, one is at 120 degrees, and one is at -120 degrees if you looked at them on an oscilloscope, and referenced to one phase. If you take (1 at an angle of 0 degrees) + (1 at an angle of 120 degrees) + (1 at an angle of -120 degrees), you will get zero. Thus the return path in three phase power is shared between the three phases, and the neutral wire in a 4 wire, three phase system is equivalent to the ground wire connected to your wall plug. The ground wire will only carry current when the "vector sum of the phase voltages does not equal zero" (meaning the simple equation at the beginning of this paragraph does not sum to zero - whatever it sums to is what is flowing in the neutral).
