She jerked slightly at the contact, like the touch of a live conductor.

He is also believed to be one of the most widely recorded living conductors.

But the riders also said they would feel more comfortable if they heard from a live conductor once in a while.

Since there are two live conductors in the system, it is sometimes incorrectly referred to as "two-phase".

In normal operation, all the current down the live conductor returns up the neutral conductor.

Mariss Jansons may be the most important living conductor; rather than simply interpreting music, he illuminates it.

For a three-phase variant all live conductors and the neutral must pass through the current transformer.

To ensure that all live conductors are interrupted when any pole trips, a "common trip" breaker must be used.

Tools can be attached to the stick, allowing work to be performed with the worker himself safely away from the live conductors.

The track may have more than one live conductor, so that multiple switched circuits can be used to control different fittings on the same track.

This measures the difference between the current flowing through the live conductor and that returning through the neutral conductor.

For medium-voltage distribution substations, metal-enclosed switchgear may be used and no live conductors exposed at all.

Next time I'll know better than to fly with a wireless trailer over a live conductor," and he held out his hand to Mr. Peterson.

But I think he probably still is the best living conductor, when at his best, especially now that Charles Mackerras is dead.

In some installations, there may be two live conductors which carry alternating currents in a three wire single-phase circuit.

Last week, Mr. Karajan resigned, ending a 34-year relationship between what some music lovers said was the greatest living conductor and the world's finest orchestra.

He has conducted at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth for two decades and led more evenings of opera there than any other living conductor.

In an unbalanced multi-phase system, the potential of the earthing system will move towards that of the most loaded live conductor.

This allows the coil to be open-ended and flexible, allowing it to be wrapped around a live conductor without disturbing it.

A fault in the appliance which causes a live conductor to contact the casing will cause a current to flow in the earth conductor.

Ioan Holender, the director of the Vienna State Opera, said that "the greatest living conductor has left us."

The NCVD can sense voltage when positioned close to the live conductor without making a hard-wired electrical connection.

A composite video signal encodes all information on a single conductor; a composite cable has a single live conductor plus earth.

Each live conductor of such a system is a rigid piece of copper or aluminium, usually in flat bars (but sometimes as tubing or other shapes).

Now Claudio Abbado, who at 73 may be the most respected living conductor, has given us a new recording of "Die Zauberflöte," his first.