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From: wolfgang@haddock.UUCP
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Subject: resistance of earth ground
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Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 13:57:09 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 24 13:57:09 1987
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Here is a question that I never saw discussed anywhere before:
	
	What is the resistance of earth ground? Let's say we have two
good connections to the earth, say two Chevettes :-), dropped into the
ocean, one into the Pacific and the other Atlantic. With an ohm-meter
connected between them, what kind of resistance can I expect to see?

	(I can probably even donate 1/2 of the electrodes for the
experiment, but that is another story ... ).

			-wolfgang
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Wolfgang Rupprecht
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