Re: More Experiments With My Old Rittenhouse Smokes, & Interconnecting New Ones

[Crash Gordon® <NONE@xxxxxxxx>]

And, what do you have between black & white?
I doubt there was a relay on a 110 VAC smoke.
And...are we talking about a Romex 14/3 (white, black, red + ground)?


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> Hi,
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> Thought I'd take a second and tell everyone my latest experiment with =
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> See my previous posts on this.
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> As  mentioned, the interconnect line, with No detectors on it, shows 2 =
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> So, I thought that I might learn something about how they might have =
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> the Rittenhouser's by doing a little experiment.
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> Took an old Rittenhouse and hooked it up on the bench by itself with =
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> Measured between the white neutral and its interconnect wire.
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> Guess what:  110 V AC on it !
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> So, for you experts, how might they have been hooked up to the =
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> Can't imagine how it could have worked with 110 V on the interconnect =
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> non-tripped state ?
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> Any thoughts ?
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