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<blockquote data-quote="Twisted" data-source="post: 1837285" data-attributes="member: 43517"><p>When you say that the heater worked in one receptacle but you moved it to another in a different building it didn't work or the livestock wouldn't drink from it. That tells me that you do not have a static ground in that second receptacle. That heater will build up static electrical current and jolt whatever or whoever is standing on the ground. Do as you said and get a soilid copper wire, make a small coil on one end of it, and put it in the bottom of the tank. Stick the other end in the ground as far as you can and see if that doesn't dissipate the current in the tank.</p><p></p><p>Older houses, barns, sheds or whatever, didn't used to have a static ground installed when they were built, and some newer ones, especially on the farm and wired by someone's brother-in-law or farm hand, probably are missing the static ground as well. I know that you have seen receptacles that would only take 2 pronged plugs, Those receptacles do not have a static ground. The 3rd rounded blade on a plug, is the static ground. It is an earth ground and is connected to a solid copper wire connected to a soild copper rod driven 6 feet into the ground.</p><p></p><p>I didn't know that you were trying to tag me in a post. If you use the @ sign in front of someone's name, It will send them a notification that you tagged them: [USER=637]@Chuckie[/USER]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Twisted, post: 1837285, member: 43517"] When you say that the heater worked in one receptacle but you moved it to another in a different building it didn't work or the livestock wouldn't drink from it. That tells me that you do not have a static ground in that second receptacle. That heater will build up static electrical current and jolt whatever or whoever is standing on the ground. Do as you said and get a soilid copper wire, make a small coil on one end of it, and put it in the bottom of the tank. Stick the other end in the ground as far as you can and see if that doesn't dissipate the current in the tank. Older houses, barns, sheds or whatever, didn't used to have a static ground installed when they were built, and some newer ones, especially on the farm and wired by someone's brother-in-law or farm hand, probably are missing the static ground as well. I know that you have seen receptacles that would only take 2 pronged plugs, Those receptacles do not have a static ground. The 3rd rounded blade on a plug, is the static ground. It is an earth ground and is connected to a solid copper wire connected to a soild copper rod driven 6 feet into the ground. I didn't know that you were trying to tag me in a post. If you use the @ sign in front of someone's name, It will send them a notification that you tagged them: [USER=637]@Chuckie[/USER] [/QUOTE]
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