pianotuna wrote:
How many folks have actually gotten a shock from a non gfci connection?
I always treat power cables and cords as if they were live.
If I have to connect or disconnect in wet conditions, I wear silicone oven mitts and rubber boots.
I prop up any plugs for extension cords so they won't become immersed.
Is this so difficult that fast acting gfci is a must do for protection?
Last time I got shocked was in 1976 when I was installing a telephone cable and the phone happened to ring just as I was connecting the wires to the lightning suppressor.
POTS line tip and ring can get ya.
It also kills slugs if they get in the distribution box in the yard and start crawling across the terminals.
which then ends up with lots of static on the line. and a mess to clean up.
IMHO one of, if not the biggest plus to a GFCI is the protection it provides for little kids and what they may try to do around an outlet.
And a GFCI does NOT guarantee protection from a shock. Only works if there is enough leakage current to ground. So...... put on the rubber boots, and get across the hot and neutral. Good chance a GFCI will not trip. If it doesn't see an imbalance of current between the hot and neutral, No trippy!
