Just wanted your input on the theory behind this. My son works for a cable company and troubleshoots and installs cable lines. He was up a pole the other day, and was making his cable connections, and got zapped big time when putting the 2 ends together. He said the customer had issues of tv frying, microwave gone bad, etc. etc... I told him to check the line coming into the house and check for a broke neutral. After getting himself together after the shock, he followed the power line, and sure enough the power line neutral had been snapped into. Obviously the house had lost it's ground and the voltage had spiked and fried the normally 120 volt appliances etc. The cable line was probably tied to the ground at the meter. I told him to call the local power company. I've seen this happen several times on different jobs. On one job the power company replaced the customer's appliances.
In theory, what is actually happening here. The unbalanced load being carried over on the other phase??
Just thankful he didn't get hurt any worse. It was wet and rainy that day.
Thanks
Last edited by sparkync; 04/17/14 12:34 PM.
