JWelectric
Electrical Contractor/Instructor
Then open your mind to things that are different than you believe them to be.Please stop talking about me. I am trying to learn something useful here!
The only thing that your brother did at that campsite was open himself up to some major law suites should someone end up getting hurt by his not knowing what he was doing.My brother will likely not believe that since the work he did at the campground I had mentioned actually did help put an end to campers being shocked at their sites, but that is a matter for another day.
As has been pointed out many times the current is not shunted to earth and this is nothing more than flawed thinking. He did nothing to make the campsite safer by bonding everything to a ground rod and not even one electron was sent to earth. Every one of those electrons made it back to the transformer.The point here, however, is that bonding the camping sites' panels to ground to send stray current there is how he rightly or wrongly shunted the shocking current.
As has been pointed out numerous times throughout this thread “there must be a complete path from the source back to the source for current to flow.” With no bonding jumper there is no complete path between the equipment grounding conductor and the neutral therefore no current reading could be made between the equipment grounding conductor and the neutral in the panel. If the bonding screw had been installed you still would not have been able to get a current reading as the breaker would not have held in long enough for a reading to have been made.New question: While that one circuit was shorted to ground a few days ago, why did some current flow "to ground" through me and no current at all flow through my meter between that incoming leg and the panel's neutral bar? And remember, the panel was not bonded at that time. I can now understand why I felt so little current going "to ground" since it really had no place to go, but I cannot understand (or actually, I just do not know) why no current could flow even through my meter and on back to the panel's neutral bar.
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