• lowleveldata
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    1 year ago

    Maybe the other end of the wire is grounded? Then the least resistance path is the wire

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      1 year ago

      It obviously isn’t. You can see it sparking in the video as it energized the wire. If it was to ground those minor sparks would have been massive arcing and that wire would melt.

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        1 year ago

        sparks would have been massive arcing and that wire would melt

        How many A are we talking here?