[RFI] Station ground - more

[KD7JYK DM09]

"However, I have run into at least one instance where a "ground" wire (which 
was connected to a PLASTIC water pipe !!!!)"

>From 1981 to about 2002 or so, this place and associated out buildings was 
served by a 220VAC 200A service with no neutral.  The neutral common to the 
two feeds was water in a 110' run of 1.25" PVC pipe going back to a well 
where it ended at a painted well cap, thus bypassing the ground potential at 
that point and continuing another 200' or so to the stainless steel pump and 
dissipating all current into the ground at that point.  I discovered it by 
sitting on the output pipe to program some irrigation timers and got zapped 
in the butt.

Kurt