[Antennas] Ground rod questions (Ground currents)

[Dave Holford]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Loren Moline WA7SKT" <lmoline at hotmail.com>
To: <rbethman at comcast.net>; <antennas at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: <ve5ra at sasktel.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Antennas] Ground rod questions (Ground currents)



Bob,

The imbalance and supply voltages should be dependent on the connections to 
the power company for both the power legs and the neutral for the neutral is 
carried with the 2 power conductors from the utility.

If there is a variance like that it tells me the neutral connection back to 
the utility is faulty and you are depending on the ground to carry the 
unbalanced current which if resistive would cause varying voltage drops 
dependent on the current drawn by the load.



Loren   WA7SKT



We had exactly that problem a couple of weeks ago.
The two sides varied by up to 20 volts at random times.
Took the Power crew 10 minutes to find the loose neutral at the distribution 
transformer - apparently it was being shaken by passing traffic. Problem 
solved.

Dave    VE3HLU