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SoftTalker • yesterday at 3:10 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Line workers ground everything before they touch any conductors, except in some cases where they intentionally work "live."


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adolph • yesterday at 3:52 PM

This is the truth. Aside from solar there are plenty of folks with backup generators that automatically come on whenever grid power fails. When maintenance crews came through my neighborhood to upgrade the old pole fixtures, they grounded out each block to keep any backfeed off what they were working on.

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