If you really want to try this and feel you have to use mains power as suggested by Clarence then you MUST use an isolation transformer. If you do not use an isolation transformer then your tests will mean absolutely nothing. As has already been pointed out using mains power directly just causes a ground loop effect because the neutral side of your mains power is already connected to ground. Using an isolation transformer allows you to work around this problem.
Clarence I am surprised that someone with your experience would suggest to someone to use mains power to experiment with after they have already said they know very little about electricity. Are you trying to get someone killed? Don't you have any sense of moral responsibility? If you are going to suggest such a thing thing at least tell them how to do it safely and in a way that will give them useful results.
Originally posted by clarence
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