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Default Ground current through water main/meter

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:32:10 GMT, "Joseph Meehan"
wrote:

You have a problem there. You should have nothing moving through there.
You apparently have a problem with a open or very poor neutral, The only
flow of current should be through the neutral and the two power legs,
Current and any kind through the ground is a fault. That needs to be
addressed like yesterday,


Agreed- Fault may be located at the transformer/aerial feeder neutral
connections. The power people will need to evaluate this.

I can't imagine anyone using steel. Aluminum maybe, but not steel


A very common type of aerial feeder triplex uses AL phase conductors
with ACSR (aluminum conductor- steel reinforced) used for the bare
(neutral).
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Mr.E