With all this talk about someone getting hurt or might get hurt when working on a multiwire circuit is doing nothing but highlighting their stupidity.
In every post that I have read and every link that has been posted I see the lack of safety on the part of the person doing the work.
Each and every time there was someone poking around in a live circuit that did not have the proper safety equipment on and it seems to me that there was no meter checking being done. I could see no safety rules being observed.
I have heard, ?what if some contacts a live neutral and is grounded??
I ask, ?Why someone would be grounding their self and working on any circuit live or not??
?What if you disconnect the neutral and it burns up some ones equipment??
Who would disconnect a neutral with out first knowing which circuit(s) is/are supplying?
Through seven pages and 64 post the only danger I have heard is human error.
I have heard of the so called electrician that just starts disconnecting with out knowing what they are disconnecting, The person that is working without PPE and the idiot that is grounding him/her self and poking around in an enclosure that contains a live circuit.
This is a clear picture of the uneducated and untrained persons that think they are an electrician and working unprofessionally.
To address the TV being burned up due to a multiwire circuit I have but one thing to say. Any electrician that is trouble shooting a dwelling unit with the main closed is NOT an electrician and has absolutely no knowledge of the safety rules for troubleshooting except what is self taught.
The only thing that I have gained from this thread is a good example that I will be using in the classroom to teach up coming electricians the proper way to trouble shoot circuits safely.
Rule one is to NEVER work an energized circuit.
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Mike Whitt
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