I finished planing a bunch of pine and as I was scooting the planer(5hp-220V) into it's resting spot, the frame made contact with the metal DC duct, big spark/pop, tripped the breaker(50A--for welder too) in the shop subpanel and the main house panel(50A) 160 ft. away. I have ~~10 ft of vinyl flex pipe from planer to metal DC main run. I was pushing the planer by hand and didn't feel even a tingle, but I almost did tinkle. Is it remotely possible static build up could have caused this? I can't imagine there would be enough juice to pop a big breaker like that, but don't know the physics of electrons in DC current mode. Hasn't happened before.
I now have issues with WWing equip. that plugs in--shrink's comments would be appreciated as well. Thanks, JCB