wallywombat:
Because of heavy diverted N currents. With TN-C-S supplies, a broken PEN conductor somewhere in the street could involve the N current from the part of the street beyond the break being diverted via bonding along e.g. a metal water pipe and into a house on the other side of the break then, via further bonding back to the unbroken part of the PEN.
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