Posted on 04/10/2012 8:09:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin
“There’s people getting sick and there’s people dying,” a woman said at the meeting.
Wouldn’t the cure be to move?,oh wait it’s california logic never in use.
Come to think of it, I do believe people have gotten sick and died everywhere I've ever lived across the US. Maybe she should try France.
Or away from high voltage lines,to easy an answer?.
I’m just the guy who designs the walls...no electrical expert here.
But I’ll try.
First of all, if I implied appliances shocked people, I didn’t mean to. Its usually something not grounded well...like the metal edging on a counter-top, or a door knob...these things have alot of insulator betwen them and the ground.
Then its something like a slow motion version of rubbing a ballon against your leg. Charged particles leave the station, and are attracted to conductive items in the house. I know that, interior to the substation, they are so worried about static charge building up on certain surfaces, that they have special grounding procedures, before touching them (even with all the juice turned off). I assume that it some sort of spillover from that.
Like I said, the solution is simply a wall...sometimes they get quite high. And the shock the residents get is just like what you get when you walk across a carpet, and touch something metal. Not deadly...but annoying enough that the power company has to fix it.
And, they do have a handheld meter, which somehow measures the quantity of charged particles floating around in the house.
Anyway, it doesn’t have much to do with grounding, other than the fact that many itms in the station are not grounded...and this static charge builds up.
As far as the ‘EM radiation is making my dog sick’ tales go, I remain skeptical of them. The EM radiation from this stuff is enormously high, right at the line or transformer...but quickly drops off to normal levels, just a few feet away.
Thanks for the explanation ... I think I understand now.
More like a radiated static field that charges conductive things - as you mentioned. Irritating, not life threatening, but still something that would make your life a lot less pleasant than it could be. I’d hate to get zapped every time I touched a metal surface - it’s make me mad too.
These folks should be mopping up all the spilled coulombs and selling them back to the power company.
I suspect that a FMJ .308 through the battery would do just as well.
I suspect that a FMJ .308 through the battery would do just as well.
When we were kids one of the group threw a loop of baling wire into the air and it landed on top of a power pole transformer.
Hilarity endued.
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