High leg voltage to ground

[ptonsparky]

The panel the transformer feeds was off, no load readings. Went back today and checked neutral to ground - 60 volts! Found a bad connection on x4 neutral and repaired. Now reading 208 volts high leg to ground. Zero volts ground to neutral. Would that bad connection have prevented a circuit breaker from tripping on a phase to ground fault?

Good job.

Yes.

[JFletcher]

The panel the transformer feeds was off, no load readings. Went back today and checked neutral to ground - 60 volts! Found a bad connection on x4 neutral and repaired. Now reading 208 volts high leg to ground. Zero volts ground to neutral. Would that bad connection have prevented a circuit breaker from tripping on a phase to ground fault?

I Echo the above posters sentiment good job finding the problem.

since you had a partial ground, there is no way to tell if a line to ground-fault would have tripped a breaker. as was mentioned above if there was no connection, you would have an ungrounded system... a line to ground-fault simply would have grounded it, and not trip a breaker.

[ActionDave]

Would that bad connection have prevented a circuit breaker from tripping on a phase to ground fault?

Would it have? No way to know for sure if a ground fault would have pulled enough load to blast through the bad connection.

Could it have? Yes. I just got done troubleshooting a high resistance ground fault the other day.