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Haha, I don't intend to electrocute myself anytime soon!

Would that be due to any imbalanced currents in the local 3 phase system travelling down the shared earth/neutral?

Would that be due to the imbalanced currents travelling down the neutral throughout the whole 3 phase local system?

Sorry, I don't think I got that bit :S Feeling a bit thick tonight!

Hang on, I've thought about it a bit more....You get a shock because the current isn't returning through the N, but rather through you to earth, and then through earth back to the transformer. Have I got that right? :S

Ok, but isn't that the same as touching the neutral bar in a live mains board? You don't get a shock from that

Probably a stupid question, but how would the Neutral float up to the same potential as Line? Wouldn't there have to be a short between the two for that to happen?

I like stories! haha.

A conversation came up between myself and my lecturer (I am nearing the end of my apprenticeship) about the reasons for not taking the earth outside of a building on a TN-C-S system to, say, a shed. He tried to explain it but couldn't quite figure out how to. With reference to this thread I...