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From: bender@oobleck.Eng.Sun.COM (I want to be eating rich soup in another town)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Stray Voltage? on 60 Minutes
Keywords: ignorance
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Date: 9 Apr 91 02:13:39 GMT
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In article <10868@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) writes:
->
->	I'm an engineer at WEPCo, and it just so happens that I work
->right next to our stray-voltage expert (Chuck DeNardo).  It also happens
->that I know a little something about electricity (it helps, being an EE).
->
->	Stray voltage is a detectable (3 micro-volts up to half a volt)
->voltage gradient in the ground which may cause irritation to farm animals
->when they are hooked up to milking machines or feeding out of metal troughs
->that are grounded more than a few yards away.  Stray voltage occurs NATURALLY
->as well as being a result of poor wiring (usually an un-grounded neutral
->in the farm's own wiring).
->	Basically, it can make a cow not like to eat out of a trough or
->not want to give milk (because it tickles), but 
->	THERE ARE NO ANIMALS EXPLODING BECAUSE OF STRAY VOLTAGE!!!

Hey, this sounds like perfect stuff for alt.folklore.urban:

	"Farmer's Cow EXPLODES, farmer claims STRAY VOLTAGE,
	  Russian experts testify to existance of space aliens
	  that EAT stray voltage..."

or something like that...
mike
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