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Engineering Case Study - Mystery Current
 

 

Subject - Engineering Case Study - Mystery Current

January 21, 2008
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Engineering Case Study – Mystery Current

 

imageDefinitely a phenomenon you don’t run across everyday. Plastic cable TV splitter boxes were melting off the wall at many homes in a specific area of a town. The outside house cable TV grounds would also generate a “spark” each time an attempt was made to connect it to the outside house electrical utility ground. Numerous groups had been involved to attempt to solve this situation, but the problem still remained unsolved.

 

Power Line Systems Engineering, Inc. was called upon to help solve this mystery. Click here to read their very interesting case study.

 

 

 

 

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  • Interesting article!

    Maybe two years back, one of my regular customers had me add a new circuit / receptacle to his data processing center. Since this was being added to an already packed room, I used MC, rather than my preferred pipe. When time came to make my connections at the panel, I went to attach the ground wire first .... and was quire surprised to see a spark! That day, I was able to replicate this several times.

    On a follow-up visit, I was not able to repeat my experience.

    I did the 'original' wiring of this place, and I installed their massive UPS system. I still have no idea what was happening ... but the article confirms that I was not imagining things, and gives me some idea of how to run this down.

    Reno Steinke

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