JcoFS3500
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mike4947 wrote:We had a strip of new houses built parallel to a realy high voltage high line. The houses can with aluminum siding. Folks were getting shocks and the power company first tried grounding the siding, but that didn't work well. Developer finally had to remove all the aluminum siding and replace with vinyl.
Also none of the houses could have any fluorescent lighting as you couldn't turn them off.
Needless to say the houses have a greatly reduced value.
Hmm, free lighting. Wonder how they're doing with the switch-over to compact fluorescent bulbs.
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I knew it happened, just not to that extent.
As far as what Executive wrote, It took me twice reading it while I drank my coffee but that you for the info.
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Executive wrote:Sorry if I wasted anyone's bandwidth..guess some people just don't want to educate themselves...that said, get yourself a Gaussmeter and test YOUR own microwave or your electric blanket..just sayin...  ....Dennis
Well, if I exceed my 150 GB limit with AT&T (DSL), I'm sending you the bill Dennis! 
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rockhillmanor
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Matthew_B wrote:It isn't the magnetic field, it is the capacitive coupling of the voltage field through the air.
The current through a power line will be 3000A or less. I can tell you that you can stand right next to a 3000A AC wire at low voltage and not feel any effects, let alone 15 feet away.
EMF-Electro Magnetic Field is NOT the same as STRAY VOLTAGE from transmission lines.
Power companies now have to be aware of any diary farms within their proposed route for transmission lines.....because the "Stray Voltage" shocks the cows standing in the metal stanchions. Dairy industry can afford attorneys so the routes are usually changed to avoid dairy farms or they buy them out.Have read court cases where the stray voltage has killed dogs in kennels and horses with shoes on. And have fun trying to use your computer.
Transmission lines can not be within 300 feet of a school because of the incidence of cluster cancers......yet they can and will run it within 300 feet of your home, guess the adults don't count. :
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Years ago I used to lead groups of school kids on rafting trips in the midwest. We went under a set of high-voltage lines that made the surface of the water kinda ripple or "sparkle". You could feel a tingle inside the raft, and people who were floating along beside the rafts jumped out of the water real quick!
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Matthew_B
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rockhillmanor wrote:Matthew_B wrote:It isn't the magnetic field, it is the capacitive coupling of the voltage field through the air.
The current through a power line will be 3000A or less. I can tell you that you can stand right next to a 3000A AC wire at low voltage and not feel any effects, let alone 15 feet away.
EMF-Electro Magnetic Field is NOT the same as STRAY VOLTAGE from transmission lines.
You'll note I NEVER used the word "stray voltage" because that is the industry term to voltage produced across objects on the ground by ground current flow due to power lines.
The shock you feel near a power line is most definitely not from the magnetic field of the power line. Explain this: You can lay a 300A AC welder lead against your skin and feel nothing. Are you telling me that a power line creates more magnetic field in you than that?
What you feel under a power line is the voltage field from the capacitive coupling from the wires to ground and objects on the ground.
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rockhillmanor
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Matthew_B wrote:rockhillmanor wrote:Matthew_B wrote:It isn't the magnetic field, it is the capacitive coupling of the voltage field through the air.
The current through a power line will be 3000A or less. I can tell you that you can stand right next to a 3000A AC wire at low voltage and not feel any effects, let alone 15 feet away.
EMF-Electro Magnetic Field is NOT the same as STRAY VOLTAGE from transmission lines.
You'll note I NEVER used the word "stray voltage" because that is the industry term to voltage produced across objects on the ground by ground current flow due to power lines.
The shock you feel near a power line is most definitely not from the magnetic field of the power line. Explain this: You can lay a 300A AC welder lead against your skin and feel nothing. Are you telling me that a power line creates more magnetic field in you than that?
What you feel under a power line is the voltage field from the capacitive coupling from the wires to ground and objects on the ground.
I actually was AGREEING with you and then just went further to describe that the stray voltage IS what was getting the OP.
Sorry for not being more a little more clear in how I typed my response. 
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I think Dennis invented the Flux Capacitor!!
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trailerbikecamper
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In simplest terms there is an elctromagnetic field aroound those lines. Beacause it is AC powr the field is constantly growing and shrinking.As thsi grows and shrinks it induces "creates" a current in any conductor within the range of the field.
Because you parked directly under the power line your MH skin became the "conductor". And you became the ground wire to drain the power off. This is also the reason for the ground wires on the fences around power stations.
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Thanks alot Dennis, I always thought I wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. Now I just feel dumb.
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