How do French Sparkies manage..........? Easy, sit on the wall, roll a ciggy and pop the cork on a bottle.
Floating earths, now that brings back memories. Friends house in London, the whole street had the water upgraded from lead to plastic. All well and good until matey was washing his hands and thought with the stinging he had been working too hard in the garden. Then later in a shower he started seeing sparklies. Turns out the water pipe was the earth return and there was 12 volts floating on the whole house system through leakage, which was proved when during a phone call I advised him to connect in the broom closet under the stairs a section of copper house pipe to the cut off lead section, and there was a nice fat spark.
Whole road had to be re-terminated, at the expense of the water board.
Floating earths, now that brings back memories. Friends house in London, the whole street had the water upgraded from lead to plastic. All well and good until matey was washing his hands and thought with the stinging he had been working too hard in the garden. Then later in a shower he started seeing sparklies. Turns out the water pipe was the earth return and there was 12 volts floating on the whole house system through leakage, which was proved when during a phone call I advised him to connect in the broom closet under the stairs a section of copper house pipe to the cut off lead section, and there was a nice fat spark.
Whole road had to be re-terminated, at the expense of the water board.
