


 
BE CAREFUL! The shock you can get from touching a "fully connected neutral"
could well be
the one that kills you. If there is no current in it, and often this is hard to
know, you would not get a shock. If there is current in it, you have presented
that current with a parallel path to ground. If you don't get a shock you have
only been very lucky. 
In that case, you were of sufficiently high resistance to avoid one. 

If you are sweaty, standing on concrete or earth, touching steel, etc.,
(especially when dealing with higher voltages, 
although 120 volts kills more people than any other) you won't forget it  .....
if you
survive. Been there done that.

Dick Ratico
Solarwind Electric
Bradford, VT

You wrote:
"The only time you can get shocked from a neutral is when it is 
disconnected from the ground bus. A fully connected neutral should 
be safe even if current is running through it."


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