Pigs too, A customer called me up with a completely unrelated problem upon arriving at the farm I noticed Rudy was not there,( a huge 500 # Stud-Boar which the owner paid a premium price)
wheres Rudy I asked he said he had sold him becuase he had not been doing his job. The others were somewhat antsy too, come to find out he had a stray voltage problem on the electric heater for water trough about 1 1/2 volts, the heater kept the lines from freezing in cold weather.
After that I started checking out ' Stray-Voltage' sites and there is a huge problem wiht this.
The farmers and some blame the power companies and the PoCos blame the farm wiring, the problem just gets passed around.
Some of the papers I have read said it had a lot to do with the PoCos grounding the primary and secondary neutrals together and their neutrals actually being too small and the earth being used as an alternate return path for neutral current. In some areas the power companies will separate the neutrals for a particular,(squeaky wheel policy)but charge an arm and a leg for it, which is called a neutral isolator.
Again it comes down to balancing loads for alot of the problems.
Wm.Colt
