On Fri, 06 Jan 2017 15:00:04 -0000, trader_4 wrote:

On Thursday, January 5, 2017 at 12:57:27 PM UTC-5, TimR wrote:
Two separate ideas being debated here.

1. Ufer grounding as an appropriate or legal method of grounding your system.

2. Concrete floors considered to be at ground potential.

For the latter, I have always been told that you must consider a concrete floor to be at ground, and therefore refrain from touching any hot wires.

I have not attempted to measure that myself and don't know the source of the claim. But I've seen it in a number of electrical safety classes, so if it is an urban legend it is a well distributed one.

With regard to the initial claim, that concrete does not conduct,
it's the same issue with both. If concrete did not conduct, a
concrete encased electrode for an earth ground would be useless
and you would not get shocked standing on a concrete floor.

You don't. Try it. Or try placing a lightbulb or meter instead of yourself. One end on live, the other end with a steel plate on the concrete floor the same size as your bare feet. Show me a video of this working.

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