
According to balanced three-phase circuit theory, the neutral current should ideally be zero or negligible compared to the phase current. Yet, technicians frequently discover during inspections at electrical panels that the neutral wire is extremely hot, with measured neutral currents sometimes even exceeding the current in individual phase wires. This is neither a rare occurrence nor a measurement instrument error; rather, it indicates that the system's loads are non-linear, generating harmonics that traditional conductor sizing methods fail to account for









