I've just had a nasty experience with a new appliance where the body turned out to be live. An engineer duly turned up and without so much as looking at the appliance announced that our electrical circuit was not earthed!
Being somewhat shocked by this I took the socket cover off to find the expected green and yellow cable duly in place.
I suspect the engineer was either drunk or incompetent as the fault seems to be intermitent - I would expect it to be constant if the socket was not earthed??
Getting round to my question, what is the normal resistance on an earth? The engineer has recorded a value of 2 Ohms.
Being somewhat shocked by this I took the socket cover off to find the expected green and yellow cable duly in place.
I suspect the engineer was either drunk or incompetent as the fault seems to be intermitent - I would expect it to be constant if the socket was not earthed??
Getting round to my question, what is the normal resistance on an earth? The engineer has recorded a value of 2 Ohms.