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Stray Voltage: Two Different Perspectives
 

 


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March 7, 2011
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Stray Voltage: Two Different Perspectives

Jim Burke – Quanta Technology – Fellow
Chuck Untiedt – Udder Chaos Inc.
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Abstract: Stray voltage has become a major concern, in recent years, to humans as well as dairy cows.  The problem is that dairy farms have considerably different requirements than the general customer population.  Meeting the farm criteria may become much too expensive (and unnecessary) for all classes of customer service.  At this point in time, the utility industry is trying to install one standard for all their customer classes.  The purpose this paper is to present the dairy farmer and the utility sides of the topic.  This is done via authorship by a utility consultant and a dairy farmer.  Ultimately, the purpose of the paper is to allow for both the utility and the dairy farmer to reach agreement over this long standing problem.

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  • I saved this one. Thanks Mike. Great paper! I learned a lot from it. I underestimated that problems in eliminating stray voltage. I realize that delta connection does not give us a true neutral leg-it's either corner or mid winding. But also wye-wye is unstable. 5 wire sounds great but wouldn't this require some wye-delta hook up for the transformer? Maybe I missing something here.

    Bob  March 8 2011, 1:50 pm EST
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  • We raise horses with a number of heated waterers available for their use during the winter. We noticed the horses pulling back from the waterers, refusing to drink. I could not feel any stray electricity, as noted in the article on stray electricity. I measured the potential from the water to earth, and found it to be 300 milli-volts. When I checked with the power company, I was told that the "voltage" was well within their requirements. They did come out and verify that the 300 millivolts was also measured at the transformer supply. They had no suggestions for a fix. I installed ground rods at each waterer, reducing the stray voltage to less than 10 millivolts. It corrected the problem, but raises the possibility of a neutral failure causing high voltage drop with the return to earth. Didn't have any other solution, horses have to have water - even in the winter.

    Ray Floyd  March 8 2011, 9:00 am EST
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