pegggu
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- Location
- Los Angeles
if a utility power line goes down, so long as it doesn't land on a car or some other object, if instead it makes contact with the road, ground, dirt, earth. Would it not then be considered a phase to ground fault? Would it not be dead at that point? If somewhere to grab it would it not be safe (not saying some one should) but would it not be technically safe? Would the current not go through a system ground somewhere back along the circuit?
If this isn't the case, what would happen? would the line still be energized and just see the ground as a low resistance path to ground?
If this isn't the case, what would happen? would the line still be energized and just see the ground as a low resistance path to ground?