Re: question for ya.........

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Original poster: Chip Atkinson <chip@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Dave.  Where are you drawing the arc between?  Perhaps if you are going
between another ground and the top bushing, the resistance between your
transformer ground and the other ground is causing the voltage rise
between the concrete and transformer case.

Chip

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, david baehr wrote:

> ....is there anyone you know in the area ( or not ) running a single 
bushing transformer ???  I
> have it hooked up. case is grounded to a ground rod outside the basement 
window, but the trans
> is off the basement floor (concrete) , I put a volt meter between the 
case and the floor. When
> energized , there is zero volts , GOOD ,...but when I  load it (draw an 
arc ) I get voltage ,maybe
> 50-60v between the case and floor at 160v into the transformer. Not sure 
whats goin on, it should
> be zero, right ??? Maybe you could post this for me on the mail list , 
please. [IMAGE] I made the
> mistake of asking this question on a power lineman sight, boy, I cought 
some SH-T for that[IMAGE],.
> said I was crazy and stupid ,...  Just thought if someone else had a 
similer setup, they could take
> a reading between the trans case and there floor/surrounding ground and 
see whats up. /////Still
> got to wind my homemade limiter(hope it works, Thanks!!!!!!!,dave
>
>