Want this question answered?
Its dangerous to touch a live wire while standing on earth bare footed under such condition because the current flows easily from live wire to earth through your body.
Because there is a potential difference between the live and neutral wires.
You hold the doorknob with one hand and a live wire with the other, you moron.
An electrical circuit forms a loop. The "live" or hot wire supplies the voltage, which is returned on the neutral. If the hot wire and neutral wire were connected together without a load between them, the circuit would be short out and trip the circuit's protection device.
The neutral is supposed to be grounded on all installations, single phase and three phase, according to the electrical code so no you will not get a shock if you touch the neutral wire. If the neutral wire is not grounded you might in some circumstances get a little tickle of voltage.
Live wire is not to be touched. or Live wire touch not..haha
You can use a wire tester to determine if a wire is live. You can also touch the positive wire on the ground wire, if the wire produces a spark it is live.
You can get what is called a short. It will most likely blow fuses or breakers.
Its dangerous to touch a live wire while standing on earth bare footed under such condition because the current flows easily from live wire to earth through your body.
You should never touch a person in contact with live wire because the electricity will get run thru the body ad also get to you.
Because there is a potential difference between the live and neutral wires.
yeeee :)
You hold the doorknob with one hand and a live wire with the other, you moron.
An electrical circuit forms a loop. The "live" or hot wire supplies the voltage, which is returned on the neutral. If the hot wire and neutral wire were connected together without a load between them, the circuit would be short out and trip the circuit's protection device.
The neutral is supposed to be grounded on all installations, single phase and three phase, according to the electrical code so no you will not get a shock if you touch the neutral wire. If the neutral wire is not grounded you might in some circumstances get a little tickle of voltage.
It definitely will NOT protect you because the ELR will not trip for a current going up the live and coming back down the neutral.
Never assume that any electric wire, no matter what color it has, is safe to touch.