Power at Work: How to check for and deal with stray voltage on the farm

by RALPH WINFIELD

As I stated in an earlier article, what goes around comes around. Usually the time period is 20 to 30 years. Stray voltage is right on time.

I started hearing about this in the early 1970s when I worked as an agricultural applications engineer for Ontario Hydro. It was presumed at the time to be a greater problem in the United States, where they had many rural electrical co-operatives which did not have the quality of distribution line system we had in Ontario.

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