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John Milstone <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Have you tried your model with what I think is the most likely
method of fraud: running full current through the supposedly "dead"
3rd phase wire?
The power meter would detect this. All of the wires are metered.
When something like this happens normally, it is a mistake, not a
deliberate effort at fraud. This would be a very dangerous mistake.
Meters are designed to detect things like this, to prevent accidents and
overvoltages. That is the whole purpose of a power meter.
As I have said before, fraud is functionally equivalent to experimental
error, except that errors are usually more subtle and harder to find.
All experimental scientists spend their careers finding errors, which
they make all the time, nearly every day. After you spend decades
finding mistakes, finding deliberate fraud is a piece of cake.
Arthur Clarke described his early training in radio and radar in the
RAF. The instructors would take out a vacuum tube, bend one pin so that
it did not connect, and put the tube back. The students would have to
find the problem quickly. This is an example of an error deliberately
induced, similar to fraud. People who spend decades dealing with
equipment will spot any kind of fraud instantly. There is not the
slightest chance something like the "cheese" method would escape their
attention for more than a few seconds.
- Jed
