is any body explain me why return current in three phase power system is less

is any body explain me why return current in three phase
power system is less then in a red, yellow, blue phases???
as we know Ir+Iy+Ib=In then why nutral wire has less then
phase current????

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is any body explain me why return current in three phase power system is less then in a red, yello..

Answer / s ray

The vector sum of three phase current is zero i.e neutral current is zero. but deu to load unbalance we get a small neutral current

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is any body explain me why return current in three phase power system is less then in a red, yello..

Answer / banalasanthosh

whenever a phase is to feed current to nuetral, remaining
two phases also share the current with nuetral.... that
means Ir current flow through yellow , blue and nuetral
also. thata why total current willnot be presented in nuetral

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