Glass lights up a tick tracer?!?

[George Stolz]

Can anyone who's worked on a grocery store explain to me how a 120V anti-sweat circuit works? I have never seen a pane of glass light up a tick tracer before! :-?

 

[peter d]

Can anyone who's worked on a grocery store explain to me how a 120V anti-sweat circuit works? I have never seen a pane of glass light up a tick tracer before! :-?

You're probably just picking up the EMF from the heat strip. That's all the anti-sweats are anyway. Nothing fancy about them.

 

[brother]

Can anyone who's worked on a grocery store explain to me how a 120V anti-sweat circuit works? I have never seen a pane of glass light up a tick tracer before! :-?

I think they work like the REAR defrost in the car, a heat strip (the heat tapes on them)

 

[quogueelectric]

Glass builds static easilly anyway and will set off a tick on static alone. The flourescent lights throw out some emf field also.

 

[cadpoint]

Well silicon is a semi metal, but I think your talking about this type of device at a grocery store opening.
Sweat control
Found from this page listing of Google

I've never touched one

 

[ultramegabob]

the anti sweats in glass doors on the coolers in a liquor stores that I do work in are nothing more than heat tape in the framework, you dont want to run them if the cooler breaks down, they will burn themselves out.

 

[480sparky]

... you dont want to run them if the cooler breaks down, they will burn themselves out.

Or turn them on before the compressors start running. :smile:

 

[Buck Parrish]

My tick tracer will go off three ft in front of my TV.

 

[Minuteman]

My tick tracer will go off three ft in front of my TV.

I hope you set more than 3 feet away!

 

[Buck Parrish]

I hope you set more than 3 feet away!

YEAH, IT'S THE KIDS PLAYING WITH THE TICKER THAT I FOUND OUT IT WOULD GO OFF LIKE THAT.

I HAVE HAD THEM GO OFF BY TOUCHING WALLS IN SOME OLD HOUSES. NOT JUST ONE WALL

 

[quogueelectric]

YEAH, IT'S THE KIDS PLAYING WITH THE TICKER THAT I FOUND OUT IT WOULD GO OFF LIKE THAT.

I HAVE HAD THEM GO OFF BY TOUCHING WALLS IN SOME OLD HOUSES. NOT JUST ONE WALL

Do you live in Amityville??

 

[ultramegabob]

Or turn them on before the compressors start running. :smile:

yeah especially that, the important thing is that the unit is down to temp

 

[George Stolz]

I still think it's weird.

Thanks, guys.

 

[quogueelectric]

I still think it's weird.

Thanks, guys.

Ok the tick tracer is just doing its job.
It is designed to read the presence of 60 hz and static discharge is kind of a square waveform.
Got that so far??
\ it is going from 0 volts flat wave with reference to time to a high voltage static charge 90* wave spiking straight up to infinity Think vertical!!
Now going from flat line to infinity do you think that the square shaped wave will meet the slope of a 60 hz waveform??
Somewhere from zero to infinity it HAS TO hit 60 hz and that my west coast friend will set off the tick tracer every single time.
See its not that wierd and believe me I know wierd.

 

[macmikeman]

Do you live in Amityville??

I've seen that same thing too many times to keep track of. What I have noticed with that weirdness is usually there is something goofy with the grounding/bonding happening in a house that has walls that set off a tic tracer. Like bootleg grounds run off a neutral for instance. If it worked consistanly every time it would be a great way to determine if any house had that stuff going on in the first place, but what I also noticed is that it is not a consistant thing to have a tic tracer ringer house even when you find bootleg grounds. Just happens with some of them.