Re: Potentially stupid question about AC

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney) wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>>I guess what I'm asking is why the ground absorbs the
>>excess current.  Electrons going out of one of the two
>>wires and into the other makes sense because they both
>>come from the transformer (which in turn steps down the
>>feed from the power station).  But why does the ground
>>take the charge?
>
>I'm not sure exactly what you are asking here but as far as I can
>tell, and I could be wrong; my memory is real fuzzy about this, the
>ground (earth) has a pretty negative charge so it is always quite
>happy to take more electrons.

Excess positive charge, right?  Electrons are negatively
charged by defitintion (protons are positively charged)
so I take it the ground must be positively charged if it is
happy to take more electrons.