Harold:
A while back there was a 'stray' voltage situation making the local paper (Asbury Park Press) in Brick. Seems JCP&L/GPU use a 'single wire, earth return' distribution system, and something to do with the bare or undersized ground conductor at the poles. This is not my forte, so perhaps one of the 'line guys' here can enlarge on this theory.
Seems people with pools could have the main disco at the house 'off', and still record somewhere around 12-16 volts on the property.
This was a 'hot' subject for a while (in the paper), then it went away....
John
