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Originally Posted by bickyd
Any technician who travels for a service call and proves 240 volts on one leg. especially momentarily, aaaaannnnddd leaves with a payment without fixing a serious issue like this is very irresponsible. Arcing , which is what is going on here, is the first major cause of fires electrically. I know you don't want to hear from me but there are others who will read this. North America uses single phase power 120/240 volt because our bodies retain enough of an average resistance so that if we come into contact with one side of the hot bar in a panel, we have the ability to reflex and pull away. If you touch both hot bars at the same time , you will not fare so well. I hope that breaker was not on all night.
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Yeah, done enough fire subro cases to say you speak the truth. When wd first posted, I was going to ask about the plug, given that the oven was moved, but he threw me off with the terminal talk, thought it was hard wired.
Good deal that it was found, could have been ugly.