"BenignBodger" wrote in message
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On 3/2/2014 11:03 PM, Robert Green wrote:
My wife asks: "Is there any protection to be gained by placing a thick
rubber mat in front of the circuit panel where someone working on the
panel
would normally stand?" It would seem it would have to help a little.

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Certainly it could help in some circumstances although I doubt that any
home electrical panel would need such safeguards (assuming that anybody
tinkering with the panel isn't a total arse). But if you must then you
might as well buy the real thing and not take chances that your choice
won't do the job:


http://www.highvoltagesupplies.com/s...anket-1086.cfm

Protects to 17,000 volts for close to $200. I am not sure which is the more
disqualifying of the two. I only need 240V protection and I'd rather not
have to spend $200 for a rubber mat if a much less expensive one would
provide at least *some* greater protection than a concrete floor with a
French drain running right underneath that area.

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Bobby G.