electrical shock / grounding question

[Anonymous]

Ok here's a weird one. Messing around with the contactors this morning on my SC27, when I get a mild shock. The 220 breaker is definitely OFF. I measure the line voltage coming in, I have about 1.5 (yes 1-point-5) volts AC on one of the lines.

I go and measure the voltage coming out of the OFF breaker, and I have 1.5 volts on one of the outputs, with reference to the ground connection in the box.

Is this just induced voltage from the wires all running in parallel through the conduit, and if so should it be possible for me to get a mild shock from it? The floor was kinda wet for what that's worth.

This is the machine with the motor that burnt out, I want to be sure I don't have some kind of weird grounding issue before re-installing the fixed motor.

- John

[ferd]

My educated guess is that you have a neutral problem. The voltage was coming from the neutral not the breaker. If it is from the neutral wire, your Edison company should be very interested. You could have a bad transformer or it could be one of your other machines feeding back.
But probably a bad connection on the neutral somewhere.