Why does a dry tree oimb or a broken conductor lying on dry or frozen ground not always trip out the circuit protection?
Ans: A dry tree branch or a dry ground has a very high resistance and as ice is a poor conductor of current so dry frozen ground also offers a very high resistance.
So if any open (broken) current carrying conductor touches to those surfaces, there will be very less amount of fault current flowing to the ground due to high resistance so that sometimes the fault current is not sufficient to trigger the protection circuit to trip out.
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