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Re: Grounding Shielding

Posted by Fog Top on Aug 11, 2017; 6:39pm
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/Grounding-Shielding-tp4030801p4030810.html

Does your water enter the house on metal pipes?  It comes in, goes through a water meter, and then does it exit onto PVC or metal pipes?  Magnetic fields are created whenever current flows through wiring, by running motors, wiring errors which estimates say over 90% of homes have - my house had many and the magnetic field went to 6 mG every time a light was turned on, power lines, and from the electric utility using earth for a neutral instead of beefing up their own neutral wires to return the electric signal back to the substation - almost all do it regardless if there are laws against it.  There are probably other things which create magnetic fields, but these are what come to mind.


We had a high magnetic field on our copper water pipes which BruceM on this list instructed us how to fix by splicing in pieces of PVC wherever water pipes entered and exited the house.  We disconnected the ground to the water pipes also.  You might consider asking Bruce about this.  He may no longer be on the list, which would be a great loss since he's an electrical engineer who is also ES.  If you can't contact him here, email me off list and I'll try and connect you.


An after thought, have you ever gone through your house room by room when nothing was turned on, done a magnetic field read and then switched on a light to see if the magnetic field rises?  http://emwatch.com/house-wiring-radiation/






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Subject: [ES] Re: Grounding Shielding
 
Fog Top wrote
My guess is that you've connected to earth carrying a magnetic field from the area-wide electric system.  
I measured magnetic.. It doesn't increase when I ground it.

But I did just find unusual magnetic fields in my basement where the panel ground hooks up to the water pipe.
The grounding wire has 10mG on it, .. is this normal?
It seems to give off some magnetism into the water line, but once it goes through the water meter it reduces a lot.
I also tried turning off the Main power, and surprisingly the magnetic field got even higher!

Why would turning off the power to the entire high raise the magnetic field?  Also, I keep a lot of breakers off when I don't need them, and turning more on seemed to reduce the magnetic field, but only by 0.1mG.

I don't have any experience with magnetic fields,.. What causes them in the first place?.. There is no E field on that ground wire.




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