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Green Is Normally Ground Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 6/18/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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The green wire (or sometimes a bare copper wire) in home wiring is an intentionally grounded wire that completes a circuit should a neutral wire fail. Typically it is a green wire. Electrical current takes the shortest, most direct path to ground. In your electrical circuits, the black wire (hot) supplies power and the white wire (neutral) carries the current back. If the neutral wire was somehow broken or interrupted, YOU would be electricity's shortest path back to the earth, so the ground wire is like an insurance policy to carry the current back so you don't get shocked in case the neutral wire fails.  Now that you have learned about the basics of AC electricity home wiring, let's get to the cache.  This is a micro a little smaller than 35mm.  Please re-hide this cache so it's not visible.  BYOP and Happy Hunting!

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