Everyone,

Jim was kind enough to speak with me directly and very candidly on the issues of stray voltage and his paper.

I believe Jim is an honest and extremely gifted electrical engineer and is rightfully concerned with safety, as we all are. He is also in a position to help clarify the "muddy waters" of miss-information as part of the IEEE Stray Voltage Working Group.

Jim has offered to keep an open mind and review the papers and studies that may well have been used in a manner not consistent with the “Original” published results. There are numerous documents that have been rewritten and re-published, by others, omitting the true results, of the original work and then came to an extremely different opinion, which tends to support their present position.

Here is the challenge for all participants in this forum, kindly submit your comments citing the original research and the results of that original research results and not the published documents that are from a review of the original research. There are far too many papers that are unfortunately considered "NEW" research when, in fact, they are stating entirely different conclusions from the research actually conducted.

Personally, I have accepted Jim's offer to provide him with copies of the original papers that I have possession of and will proceed to do so. If someone has a PDF for USDA 696 please send it to Jim or me and we will have an extremely good start at clarifying the "Muddy Waters" concerning stray voltage and the new opinions of persons that simply reviewed original papers and came to a different conclusion that supports their "NEW" position.

Please consider helping Jim to be able to form his own opinions, from his review of original papers.

Jim, if I have miss-stated anything please respond and thank you!! chuck