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Well, since we blew out two fuses, (L2 & L3) and kicked off the power in town, someone, not me, went back in and made sure everything was done right.

A few weeks later, the Meister bought all the things we needed to do such work. Little late in the ball game for me. I could STILL use an axe handle on his head.

The same thing happened to me. I was lucky. In my first year of apprenticeship here, we had a problem with a manual three phase circuit breaker. It was for our concrete mixing plant. I thin the fuses were about 800 Amp. The CB was loose, and a connection had gotten hot, melted the plastic and...

I could tell you a story about a lineman I met in a hospital, in Calif. in 1968 or 69. Both arms burnt off to the elbows. That impressed this 17 year old simpleton, to no end.

If you can not pull the meter, Then your risk factor goes way up. Keep that in mind.

Peter, you do a better job of explaining about the neutral bod, and SAFLY adding an Aux power source. So I will back out here. Its a tad late to learn how to do this, but better late then never.

When you are feeding into the system, the neutral ground needs to be removed IF you are feeding into the distribution box. It already has a neutral ground, and you can not add another one. Also, if you can not disengage from the grid, you can kill someone with ease, by not doing so. Back...

Then you are NOT disconnected from the grid. Yes, someone can answer your questions about the Neutral bod, but the answer could only be formed after you supplying additional info.

The answer is no. What Peter is getting at, is the 1000 million Dollar question. Did you disconnect from the the grid? That determines what you need to do. Voltage has nothing to do with you question. And how did you disconnect it?