"Mark Jerde" wrote in message
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Or can someone talk me out of a fear of an open megaamp path-to-ground
throughout my shop?


Your shop is protected by circuit breakers or fuses of lets say 20 amps
(depending on the branch circuit). Megaamps as you call it won't happen in
a direct short from hot to neutral. Your body is in effect a limiting
resistor if it makes the connection. The bottom line is adding some
resistor in the system will only cause problems for you and will not prevent
you from mutilating yourself if you put your mind to it.

Frank