115 volts to earth.

[RUWired]

I never had a reason to check voltage to earth,but i was checking the voltages at a site light and my one lead was stabbed into the ground when i noticed i was getting a reading.The earth was very moist from all the rain we've been having.So i guess that there must be some good grounding going on.The utility service riser pole was close by, but the indoor equipment was a 100' away.Have you guy's found the same other places.
Rick

 

[brian john]

What type of meter and model no.?

 

[Dennis Alwon]

What was the other lead attached to?

 

[RUWired]

standard digital clamp on sperry inexpensive type.Attached to one leg of the 240 volt branch circuit.

 

[LarryFine]

Rick, most volt-meters have a high input impedance, meaning they use very little current. As an experiment, place a light bulb in parallel with your meter leads. I bet you read almost zero volts.

This is one reason I use a solenoid-type tester unless I need to make an exact voltage reading.

 

[JohnJ0906]

You could have been reading through the dirt back to the light pole. (properly bonded to EGC, I'm sure! )

 

[benaround]

Rick,

Isn't that why people get shocks! and I'm not talking about cars!!

 

[RUWired]

I was thinking of the light bulb theory.I'm not sure if safety sam would get a kick out of it though. I'll have to do it discreetly with proper ppe.
Rick

 

[RUWired]

Rick,

Isn't that why people get shocks! and I'm not talking about cars!!

Why , because there grounded.

 

[ptonsparky]

This is typical, after all the Earth is bonded via the GES.

 

[dereckbc]

Sounds to me like everything is normal for a grounded system. You should read a voltage L-G