anteroelectric
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- Location
- Blue River, CO
Slightly off the topic, but somewhat related. Has anyone ever seen copper plumbing pipes become energized? I have seen it before when there was a 3-wire range plug installed (properly) on a new range. Re-installing a 4-wire range cable alleviated the problem.. This situation is somewhat different. In this case, there was a leak in a pipe that soaked the ceiling below. The ceiling below happened to conceal Smith Gates Corporation electric radiant ceiling heat. Upon repairing the copper pipe, I could not tell why it had split, then I noticed a light charge. I put my fluke to it and realised we had 75V AC. Now I've isolated the circuit causing the problem and it is the heat circuit for the room below. What is troubling me, was it the electrolysis and 75V charge that cause the pipe to spring a leak, or was it the leak that has now saturated the radiant heat below. I am a new user, and this may not be the right place for this, but I was stumped by this phenom in the past, and the new yet similar situation makes me uneasy.
