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| WELLSEROUSKI |
I was called out to bid on a rewire on a two storie apartment. When I looked at the outside around the 200-amp service it was a mess of j-boxes, exposed romex just amess. I took off the panel cover on the GE.main panel and all wires as far as I could tell were connected correctly and the bond screw was in. Checked voltages-to groung,neutral,both poles-all ok. I then placed the palm of my right hand on the breakers to see if any were warm and got a good jolt. I tested from ground to the faces of the breakers and got 115-volts. On every breaker I tested!! I decided I didn't want to be any part of this mess and left a messege with my contact about what I found. Anybody run into this kind of thing? 
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| jcarl | the only time i ran into something even close was when i was the electrician for a town, people were getting shocked off the fence at the high school track. i went up with a meter to check the fence and surprise no reading, until i was dumb enough to touch both sides of an open gate. you guessed it i got a nice little blast!!!!! after a few choice words started to investigate and found that the new well pump a sports league ( or pompeous jack#ss) had installed for irrigation went bad 480v 3ph. down to pump 120V coming up the ground leg to the bond on the metal pump building to the chain link fence with open gate which i had closed buy touching both sides completing the circuit.electricity it's great |
| Romex Racer | Yeah, were they wet? Breakers are constructed of non conductive material, I can't imagine a scenario where the breakers themselves become conductors. Did you read 240 volts between breakers? |
| kbsparky | quote: Only if those breakers had been wet.  Any possibility of them having moisture on them? |
| lctrc789 | If they were wet that might be your problem right there and loose connections or even the main bonding jumper... I had a service call many years ago where the panle was shocking the heck out of the delivery guys when they would deliver stuff to a restaurant in the basement... The panel was getting wet because of a drain above it and it was shocking and really hitting hard.. They had the leak repaired and we replaced the panel and made sure it was bonded properly and the grounds were right it did stop the problem... |
| WELLSEROUSKI | Yes..220-volts between breakers and a+b, breakers not wet..was a sunny day and all was dry, This is freaking me out. Maybe some kind of manufacturing defect on the materials used in the breakers?? Type GE. |