It would help. A gfci doesn't even require a ground to function. If more current is flowing thru hot than neutral (10 ma diff) it trips. We install gfci's to meet code, in old houses with no ground we have to put the "GFCI Protected No Equipment Ground" sticker on receptacle.You're lucky your heart didn't stop.
I prefer to run my kit in a GFCI, but in this case, it likely wouldn't have helped. That's one serious short you caused yourself.
-spek
I'm no master, but I am a resi electrician (in my spare time). I did not realize a ground was not required for a GFCI to function properly. I knew about the hot/neutral differential but not the tidbit regarding ground. Learn something new here every day.It would help. A gfci doesn't even require a ground to function. If more current is flowing thru hot than neutral (10 ma diff) it trips. We install gfci's to meet code, in old houses with no ground we have to put the "GFCI Protected No Equipment Ground" sticker on receptacle.
Although I only really do renos on my own homes now (which are complete guts), but in days gone by, I've been accustomed to doing full rewiring jobs in older homes, not just small fixes. For instance, even in my own homes I buy, if it is older with any older wiring (knob/tube etc) with no ground, each room I'd do I'd run ground to it so I never ran into the case you specified.We run into this a lot. Tons of old houses. Sometimes a renter will change the two prong receptacles for three prong (not grounded). After they leave, to pass regional housing inspection we go in and swap them all back to two prong to pass. Have done one house twice in just over a year. LoL
Yep, aware of the code violation, and of course I replace it. Just using as an example. Even an uneducated person can see (or should be able to see) the inherent dangers of k&t, simply by how deteriorated the insulation is (if there is any at all).If you got knob & tube, best to replace it. Whatever you do avoid blown insulation. If you insulate ever k&t wiring it can start a fire. Carter wiring required air cooling. Insulation over k&t is a code violation.
We find a lot of this, old house, newer service, but live k&t not replaced in attic with rockwool insulation blown in a long time ago.
Indeed, I always haveBe carefull to mark overrated copper in panel so a knuckle head won't upsize the ocpd to wire gauge.
If OP listens to the suggestions of Provolone and does some basic multi-meter testing, he might not need a 'pro' to come on site. I didn't read the whole thread, but I will. This literally sounds like a basic problem of connecting a 120v device into a 240v circuit from what I've seen thus far (and/or a potential short where OP became ground).CONGRADS you did not dye ! you have no ground hooked up some where . prob no ground hooked to the garage. so even if the lights are properly grounded and all the electric is correct you still get zapped. you need to call a pro to look at it the garage needs to have a breaker. and it needs to be grounded.. I have been poked by 120 and 240 I liked how it felt call me crazy. also got zapped by an electric fence nocked me down . and a few hundred times by a car spark plug. that's insane pain ! 80 thousand volts.
If you liked it then you had some insulation value between you and ground. Right hand should be only one in the panel and lefthand better never be touching a ground. Power going thru heart kills. You are lucky to be breathing.CONGRADS you did not dye ! you have no ground hooked up some where . prob no ground hooked to the garage. so even if the lights are properly grounded and all the electric is correct you still get zapped. you need to call a pro to look at it the garage needs to have a breaker. and it needs to be grounded.. I have been poked by 120 and 240 I liked how it felt call me crazy. also got zapped by an electric fence nocked me down . and a few hundred times by a car spark plug. that's insane pain ! 80 thousand volts.
He should invest in some PPG and use it. Just a matter of time for that nut.I also am an old-school auto mechanic, and once you get hit once with spark, you NEVER do it again. I had my knees resting on the steel bumper of a Blazer and touched the wrong spot on a broken plug wire. "A few hundred times" and that is beyond idiotic.
You liked being zapped? You really need to lay off what you're on bro.
-spek
Agreed.He should invest in some PPG and use it. Just a matter of time for that nut.
Had a fella just like him working with me many years ago. Dumbass dropped a metal screwdriver in an arc hazard while we were testing switchgear at a stadium and he was instantly hit with high velocity vaporized buss bar and he is no longer with us. He was wearing all PPG but arc hazards are deadly. Some good people have been lost thst way, and I mean the best, but nobody is perfect. Thing is stupid stuff can get you killed the first time, given proper circumstances even at 120 vac.