RE: capacitance of homemade caps

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Original poster: Jerry White <starcatfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Waste water pipes will most likly be PVC or in older areas clay pipe. Also 
the water lines (unless rather old) will probbably be a black plastic from 
the meter into the house. My plumbing was redone about 16 years ago and 
that is the way it was done.
Jerry

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Original poster: "Lau, Gary"

Well there are crappy grounds, and then there are crappy grounds
(couldn't resist)! But seriously, most household waste water pipes
these days are PVC. Not sure what they are under the streets, but it's
not clear that they'd be metallic. Cold water supply pipes are much
more likely to connect to a ground-worthy buried metal pipe.

Gary Lau
MA, USA


> Original poster: Terry Fritz

> There are some folks that "flush" some bare wire down the toilet to
get to
> the sewer pipes which are very well grounded... Sort of "extreme",
but
> "electrically" sound ;-)) Might not be good at the top floor of a
tall
> building ;-))
>
> Cheers,
>
> Terry