Where do the electrons go?
I know they are not consumed ( conservation of mass and all that) when they run a motor or light a lamp etc but there is an application that has me stumped.
Water heater elements and electric stoves.
What happens to the little buggers?
Power at 120 VAC comes in along two opposed lines where they meet in the heater element and the frustrated little electrons generate all manner of hotness almost like Charlieze Theron but different.
But there is no neutral carrying electrons back to the main and off to ground.
Yes there is a ground wire but no neutral attached directly or indirectly to the elements. Neither is the ground attached to the elements either.
What happens to all those electrons?
I know they are not consumed ( conservation of mass and all that) when they run a motor or light a lamp etc but there is an application that has me stumped.
Water heater elements and electric stoves.
What happens to the little buggers?
Power at 120 VAC comes in along two opposed lines where they meet in the heater element and the frustrated little electrons generate all manner of hotness almost like Charlieze Theron but different.
But there is no neutral carrying electrons back to the main and off to ground.
Yes there is a ground wire but no neutral attached directly or indirectly to the elements. Neither is the ground attached to the elements either.
What happens to all those electrons?