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120V on fridge door handle when ground broken
A power supply designed to use ground for EMF noise suppression but severed from ground
Picking up on @AndrewMorton's comment above and making this a Wiki answer because I doubt I'll have time or ...
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120V on fridge door handle when ground broken
It only takes a few mA at 120 V to get a noticeable tingle. You've already determined that the current leakage is very low -- too low to trigger a GFCI -- so if you want to track this down further, ...
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120V on fridge door handle when ground broken
Most appliances are hard to check all of the wiring.
Chassis to anything should read 0. 120v to ground means hot is touching chassis somehow.
You need a good connection between hot/ground or hot ...
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How can I add a neutral to a 240V to 120V circuit conversion?
If you convert this to a 120V panel, then adding a neutral is exactly what you are doing. It's the only possible way to make it a 120V panel, since 120V requires neutral to exist.
Now, your panel ...
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How can I add a neutral to a 240V to 120V circuit conversion?
You have conduit for the wires, so pulling a neutral should not be that hard. If the conduit is metal, then do not need a ground wire, the conduit will be the ground path. I am unsure if a bare ...
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How can I add a neutral to a 240V to 120V circuit conversion?
If everything (there is only one thing) on this subpanel is 120V, install a separate neutral bus bar and use the unused feeder as neutral. Leave the grounds the way they are. In the main panel you ...
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