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Caution - Danger

As some folks have noted, to be safe and stay within accepted limits of leakage current allowed by UL and other Safety Agencies, a capacitor from Neutral to Ground is not going to be able to be much larger than a few thousand pF. It should also be an AC line rated part (in this case, a "Y" rated cap), rather than whatever is laying around in the junkbox.

Your mention of 10k worth of capacitance is thus not even a good idea if you were referring to pF units.

Please note that the voltage is indeed zero (or close to it) when there is no load connected, but as soon as a load is present, now there is a voltage differential between the Neutral and the Ground wire.


Jon Risch


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