Hello Bruce, thanks for the concise answer. Now I don't feel SO stupid.
At least I know now I wasn't having a brain fart. But thats cool. It tells me there is more than one way to skin a patch bay
The whole grounding issue, even with pro electricians and theorists is still, at least from what I've read on the net, something of a quagmire.
Well, if THEY can't even agree, then I'm sure not going to accept every explaination as fact anymore. IN fact, the whole AC thing, is somewhat of a mystery. I've noticed on the net, there are people claiming that corporate bitterness over the DC/AC
battle in the 1800's still rages today, to the point the Smithsonian won't hardly acknowledge that Tesla was indeed the inventor of AC, as their exhibits on the subject are backed financially by of all things, General Electric, which was founded by Edison/who lost the DC/AC wars.
Ha! that tells me something. Furthermore, try and find a school history book with Tesla's name in it. Even the history of electricity, not to mention radio, is being systematically distorted and changed. So I got to wondering why, and to my astonishment, the answer lies in FBI's confiscation of Teslas documents when he died.
To this day they have not been released. That also tells me something. On futher digging on the net, it turns out Marconis claim to radio invention fame is a falsehood, also touted in school history books, which is proved by the fact of the Supreme Courts ruling some time ago that not only did Tesla invent it, corporate powers that be, to this day try to keep Marconis name attatched to radio, just as Edisons is attached to electricity.
In the history of radio, many corporate battles raged, and if you look hard, you will see evidence of corporate theivery, lies, deciet, and the whole gamut of stealth behavior by corporate beaurecrats. No difference with electrical corporations. To this day, at the first A/C generating plant, which now is held by General Electric(from what I've read), although Tesla built it(backed by Westinghouse), a sculpture of Tesla, is kept in the dark, even though it is in a historical electrical plant. Ha. The nerve of corporate bastards never ceases to fucking amaze me.
Even a 3rd grade Teacher through whose class he trys to keep Teslas name alive, sent a bust of Tesla made by this class, to the Smithsonian, only to be rejected with no explaination. This is only the tip of the iceberg. Given these facts, I tend to question many things of this nature. Because of growing up accepting the lies of the powers that be as fact, only to find out the truth, tells me that according to their doctrine, 2+2=5, as well as there is grounding theory based on something that may go deeper than suspected. Let me put it this way. When Tesla tested a machine he designed as a Death Ray device in the 30's, according to a document by Yale university, the very day that he tested it, the largest explosion on the face of the earth, took place in Soviet Russia. Ever hear that one in the history books? Check it out.
This is only one of many facts on Tesla, who many think now, was the greatest inventor in the history of the world. But yet, his name draws a curious blank even in engineering circles. Michael, no offence, this is just what I read. Maybe you would care to comment. And I know this stuff is beyond the scope of this bbs., but maybe it will illustrate why I question things.
http://www.parascope.com/en/0996/tesla4.htm
On following further links, I was led here. Which REALLY tells me something, right or wrong. Sometimes I am impervious to reason. Sometimes not.
http://www.theyrule.net/
Cheers
fitZ