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- Illinois
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- retired electrician
Yes.
Could be either. An elevated neutral to earth voltage on the system would mean that that dock bonding is the potential.
? Solution to bonding freshwater surrounding floating dock
- Thread starter luckylerado
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- Tennessee NEC:2017
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- Semi-Retired Electrician
What is the reason behind mentioning the color of the fresh water? Is green more/less conductive than clear water?:?
On another note, if you watch the video link provided by Augie47, Mike Holt says NEVER swim or get in the water around a marina. Perhaps some signage placed at several locations around the arena would lesson the chances of someone getting shocked. Especially since you will never remove all the stray voltage because of all the different ways that it can be introduced into the water.
luckylerado
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- Lake of the Ozarks
Thank you all for your input. In our area we have mostly residential docks. Everyone with a lakehouse has a boat dock typically with a 30 amp 240 sub panel with 2 or 3 120 volt circuits providing power to such things as boat hoists irrigation pumps lights and ceiling fans. This is bare minimum. People with larger docks and more toys require bigger services. I forget having been here 30 years that most people are not familiar with the way this lake is set up. There are tens of thousands of docks on this lake a lot of times only 10 feet apart
isolating the dock is impossible with wave action and steel guy wires attached to the shore.
hillbilly1 I think you have got a solid grasp on it.
Little Bill I mention green water in my original question to point out that any materials used would be subjected to algae and plant growth and over time would reduce the conductivity of the materials. Silver for example would be less susceptible to algae buildup due to its anti microbial properties.
isolating the dock is impossible with wave action and steel guy wires attached to the shore.
hillbilly1 I think you have got a solid grasp on it.
Little Bill I mention green water in my original question to point out that any materials used would be subjected to algae and plant growth and over time would reduce the conductivity of the materials. Silver for example would be less susceptible to algae buildup due to its anti microbial properties.
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