Originally posted by wantomake
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as a famous saying goes "I want to make one thing perfectly clear...." HA!HA!
most people - at least I perceive it so - when they speak of "current" in reference to anything electrical are speaking as a COMBO value ie. meaning
Voltage/amperage . I never confuse the issue. if I am speaking with reference to a voltage value I say VOLTAGE. if I am speaking of a amperage
value I say AMPERAGE.
a particular case in point is how I determined the magnetic anomaly for my site location. I found that whether I had a continuous string of equal spaced
series connected rods in a 10 ft string or 20 ft string or 30 ft string or 40 ft string or 60 ft string and whether they faced north, south, east, or west NEVER MADE ONE IOTA OF DIFFERENCE AT ALL in a reading I could get easily! the value ALWAYS came out basically the SAME. what I would do is take my Fluke DVMM and set it on DC voltage and then take the red probe and insert it into the end of the wire at the beginning rod in the connected series and then PUSH the BLACK probe down directly into THE EARTH and it would immediately start a DC reading in voltage on the meter and would climb fairly fast until it would reach a same average reading and then STOP.
what it was doing was reading the potential CONSTANT that was being given to it by the earth for my location and dumping it back to ground enabling a reading.
When I figured out what was going on then I went to a GEOMAGNETIC MAP
and saw right away that that value coincided EXACTLY to my site location!
the map came with a colored scale value chart that was rated in TESLA values but my 0.467 DC voltage agreed even with those values!
I should have attached that scale before I made this reply but i failed to do so. now i will have to include it in a next post.
thanks
Clarence
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