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    velmurugan.p Posts: 2, Reputation: 1
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    Sep 15, 2010, 11:13 PM
    Why the electric shock is produced if man touched the neutral line?
    Hi..
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    Sep 16, 2010, 02:46 AM
    Typically a neutral is a current carrying conductor, any open or broken neutral is as dangerous as a live conductor.
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    Sep 16, 2010, 03:36 AM

    I think this is the same topic as this: https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/electr...al-508014.html
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    Sep 16, 2010, 09:53 AM
    You could be right Stan. Grounding a positive terminal and a neutral thou?

    Who knows.

    Some of these questions are scary.

    I sure wish these people asking questions would use more words.
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    Sep 17, 2010, 06:27 AM

    And just to add a FPN to this question and assuage the ladies. A woman would also get shocked. Yuk, yuk.
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