Bob, thank you for the pics.

I'm no expert on this stuff, but a couple of things strike me as odd.
The FD closed the place off upon their "Hot Stick" registering a reading. I taped my little Greenlee non-contact to the truck mirror today. It looks like we'd better condemn SoCA. It sung like a bird on and off all over town.
I've got an Ideal tester that is more sensitive than the Greenlee. It will go off 3-1/2' from my TV (Greenlee 2').
Also my high impedance digital meter will register about 6 volts with one lead on a grounded cover plate screw, and the other held in the air a foot or so from the TV.

I parked this morning for a minute on aptly named "Edison Ave", directly under a criss-cross/mish mash of power lines, including 500KV lines. [Linked Image]
I was able to get 22V from the truck bed to a 400 watt core&coil ballast I had. As soon as I connected a 20K resistor across the leads as well, the voltage went to 0. I was unable to get close to get a reading to any of the "Happy Cows" [Linked Image]

I'd like to see them do the voltage from the sink to the receptacle deal with an analog meter [Linked Image]



[This message has been edited by electure (edited 01-02-2007).]