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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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  • 2.18.08 We performed a service call today at a RV park in Florida that had a service pedestal that we had diagnosed as a lost neutral since the symptoms were 245volts phase to phase, 208V phase A to neutral, 47V phase b to neutral, The customer complained that the lights were fluctuating in brightness and their microwave, phone answering machine, TV, DVD player, GFI circuit, refrigerator all had stopped working. FPL confirmed a lost neutral and temporarily installed a neutral conductor from the service handhole to the nearby pad mounted transformer. This park has had multiple failures of direct buried aluminum conductors that have been in the ground for over 20 years. Brighthouse also came out today and removed about 40 feet of RG6 that the black jacket was partially melted and also replaced an amplifier. This RG6 cable braided shield apparently became the neutral path causing this cable to draw current and in turn heated the jacket melting the jacket.

    Tim Davis

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