Posted by paul on April 28, 2012 at 10:01:50 from (66.44.132.109):
In Reply to: Electrical question posted by Stephen Newell on April 27, 2012 at 19:35:30:
In my typically satuarated clay soils it's pretty easy to get a great ground from a single 6-8 foot rod. It's bottom half will be in water 95% of the time.
We've had some dry weather for 9 months now. This winter I had an odd deal - the sink in my house was 'ticking'. Think I wrote about it then on here?
Anyhow, took me 1/2 a day to figure out it was not a leak or drip I was hearing, but actually the electric fencer was 'echoing' in the bowl of the sink.
The fence shorted out onto the steel posts driven a foot or 2 into the dry ground. We had a light rain making th surface ground damp, but the subsoil was still powder dry.
The old windmill with the metal pipe up to the house is near where the short was, by the ditch.
When they rewired in 2008, they bonded the pipes and the electrical ground in the house.
The fencer is 400 feet away in the corn crib,grounded to a lightening rod ground.
Somehow with the very dry layer of subsoil, all this combined to have the ground of the fencer running through the house, I'm thinking the insulation of the powder dry subsoil, with the water pipe, and the few inches of wet soil on top. Was very interesting. Never had that before, and once it dried ot the top soil was gone. As well as once we got a tad more rain and the topsoil is a bit wetter now, doesn't matter.
I can always hear when the fencer is shorted out when I walk past the service feed transformer, a very light buzz from it if my fence is shorted out.
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