Free Stray Voltage Video - Mike Holt YouTube Channel

It's another free resource from Mike Holt Enterprises. We recently uploaded our Stray Voltage video to the Mike Holt YouTube Channel. This informative video is an entire hour and 34 minutes and completely available to you for free. We hope you will use this as a training tool to help better understand stray voltage and the safety risks associated with this phenomenon.

This issue of Stray Voltage is real and all involved in the electrical industry should learn more about why it occurs and how it can be fixed. Sometimes it is caused by wiring errors, equipment failures, or cathodic protection for underground pipelines. Typically it is caused by the electric utility wiring system which uses the earth as the return path for neutral current.

'The term stray voltage has been used for the past 40 years to describe a special case of voltage developed on the grounded neutral system of a farm. If this voltage reaches sufficient levels, animals coming into contact with grounded devices may receive a mild electrical shock that can cause a behavioral response. At voltage levels that are just perceptible to the animal, behaviors indicative of perception such as flinches may result with little change in normal routines. At higher levels avoidance behaviors may result.

The term stray voltage is often applied incorrectly to other electrical phenomena such as electric fields, magnetic fields and most recently electric current flowing in the earth. These phenomena are generally referred to as EMF or Electric and Magnetic Fields. The physiological interactions with these phenomena are different than the mild shock associated with stray voltage.' Text extracted from Midwest Rural Energy Council [http://www.mrec.org/sv-info.html].

For additional information about stray voltage you can visit: http://www.strayvoltage.org/ and also visit the Stray Voltage Technical Page on our website.