The Dangers of Stray Voltage

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The Dangers of Stray Voltage

Topic - Stray Voltage
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March 3, 2011
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Dangers of Stray Voltage

By Jim Taricani
Published: February 24, 2011

The NB C 10 I-Team reported that a New Jersey power company has identified more than 40 contact voltage locations in Providence, Rhode Island, that could potentially kill people and pets.

Contact voltage or stray voltage is voltage on an object that should not be energized such as lamp posts, manholes, gratings and junction boxes as well as sidewalks and adjacent buildings.

David Kalokitis, chief technical officer of Power Survey Co., said a pole located at Elmwood Avenue and Westfield Street gave off 113 volts. The voltage can be deadly to pets and people.

NBC 10's Jim Taricani: "Let me ask you this. It's the summer and someone's standing here barefoot and it was wet. They put their hand on that."

Kalokitis: "Bad news. Wet feet, you got the conductivity there because of the moisture. You put your hand on that, you got the contact to the ground, that's when you get shocked. One hundred thirteen volts, that's line voltage, the same as a wall socket in your house."

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Dear Sir; I am a street light technician from the City Of Philadelphia Pa.We also had a stray voltage problem at the 1900 blk. of South Street . We too were alerted to this problem by a pet owner that said her dog would actually sit down and refuse to move if she tried to walk along this block to go home.. What we found was a pole where the bug was rubbing against the pole and had worn through the tape just enough to make the pole hot . It was not anywhere near line voltage but enough to apparently give the dog a slight shock.After retapeing the bug all is well .The owners dog now does go down that block now . In this case it was a good ending to this story.. From what I am reading through these posts it seems like a much more a wide spread problem..

Frank March 10 2011, 9:47 pm EST

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