... I have heard this before, what basis would there be for this belief?
My first unasked questions are:
- Under what conditins can one get shocked from a neutral?
- Is this anecdotal information - as in you have tried it?
- Is there any way to measure this?
But this is a first aid instructor - he doesn't know. So, next questions:
This must be coming from a paper. Do you have a reference? - cause I don't know of any physics that would cause this phenomea.
Bet you a cup of yuppie coffee the answer is, That's what they told us in our instructors' class.
You: So this is in your instructors' class book?
Instructor: No
Just thinking, not saying dfinitely:
To get a shock from a neutral, the neutral would have to be open circuited. So one's body is in series with the load - Hot to load, load to body, body to current return (probably grounding/bonding connections) The current flow through one's body is likely very low , so little voltage drop across the load - most VD is across the body path. Inductive load driving up voltage? I'm not seeing the model -
So, without a paper on the physics model: Color me clueless
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