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#143671 09/02/05 06:09 PM
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Paul, My causin opened a switch panel once after switching off the isolator. Unknown to him the panel had been subjected to massive overload for a long period when he opened the door the whole panel fell apart shorting out the mains into the panel. From the resultant flash he was hospitalised for quite a while and finished up with skin grafts. (That was some 25 years ago but it still happens).

#143672 09/03/05 08:39 AM
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Ah... We're talking about opening the main switch which is on the panel you're about to open. I'm with you now! [Linked Image]

I was thinking in terms of the isolator being elsewhere so that the panel being opened would have no energized conductors within it at all.

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