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From: stevek@locus.com (Steve Krattiger)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Stray Voltage? on 60 Minutes
Message-ID: <23566@oolong.la.locus.com>
Date: 17 Apr 91 17:50:44 GMT
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In article <1991Apr15.172627.13060@hubcap.clemson.edu> rbrink@hubcap.clemson.edu (Rick Brink) writes:
>From article <746@newave.UUCP>, by john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III):
>> In article <3853@uc.msc.umn.edu> dwm@msc.edu (Don Mears) writes:
->> Can someone explain what they were talking about on 60 minutes on 4/7
->> in the piece on stray voltage from old power lines that caused
->> dead and deformed animals, and shocks to people?  These did not look like
->> high voltage power lines, just  normal ~10kv distribution lines. 
-
-You don't have to go to the cow barn to find stray voltage.  I did some
-electrical repair work in a vegtable packing house here in South Carolina.
-While installing some new equipment, I got several good "bites" from the 
-frame of a conveyer.  I started checking around....I found the closest true

A few years back, a friend and I were in a Straw Hat Pizza Parlor and 
discovered two pinball machines sitting next to each other that were "hot".
I don't think that 'stray voltage' was the problem here, but more likely
a faulty ground on one of the circuits, or incorrect wiring...

We had a lot of fun with it....   :-)

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