something, something energy conductor

@MissInformation

I wonder why the system can leak so much current to earth and still not cut out.

I also wonder about the voltage on those transmission lines, right outside people's houses.

@CppGuy @MissInformation
Because the system carries thousands of amps under normal conditions. This isn't enough to register as a fault.
@brouhaha @CppGuy @MissInformation typically you find a ground fault detection independent from amps and current monitoring
@young_ullrich @CppGuy @MissInformation
I haven't seen that in neighborhood distribution, but I'm not a power distribution engineer. Even so, the fault current to trip it would have to be quite high.

@brouhaha

I guess you don't want a domestic wiring problem taking out the power for the whole neighborhood. But this is not that. πŸ˜„

@young_ullrich @MissInformation