Re: Stray Electricity

Posted by buickanddeere on July 06, 2005 at 09:14:46 from (216.183.130.129):

In Reply to: Stray Electricity posted by Pepper on July 06, 2005 at 05:06:12:

Possible but RF waves usually cause burns and not shocks. I suspect the utility is looking for somebody to blame rather than thier own system.
Is the hydro service old, beat up or built using one of those weird grounded Delta transformers?
Go drive a ground rod of clamp onto something that is truely at earth potential or find a deep well casing.
Measure around using a 300 ft reel of insulated wire if need be. Measure between true earth and all the hydro service panel ground, ground rods, power panel neutral bar, metal mangers, stalls etc.
I suspect the system has a high resistance ground somewhere from the neutral bar back to even the ground rod's contact to the dirt it's self.
Then look around for where some dumb *ss has conected a 120V load between one live line and the ground of a machine.
Some wild tinkerer may have swapped neutrals and grounds somewhere too. Or somebody trying to be cheap and using a single wire for both ground and neutral.
The loads in the power panel should all be close to the same current on each main line. If one line has 10 amps and the other line 90 amps. There's a trouble source right there.
I'm suprised the farmer is resigned to accepting shocks causing herd health and production problems?

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