about grounding values

[Handley George]

Hi John David... nice to talk with you!

I appreciate you good advice with regard to the possible contamination status of my breaker boxes. I don't know if you caught it in one of my most recent replies, but for most of my life owning a home, I would at least once a year, check the tightness of ALL wire lugs in the breaker box.

But, in this case, I can further report that we've been doing so much in those boxes this year that two weeks ago, we stopped everything and checked all terminals again.

I assure you, "dude",(:-)) that if I ever saw anything green or corrosive on ANYTHING inside a breaker box, my electricians would be summoned promptly. I will say this, and that is I remember following Michael's explanations over the years of the serious problem you residents of Florida, or any humid local, will have, and Michael's successful solution was to literally build a large underground grid of hundreds of feet of large wire (Akin to a 1/2 of a Farriday's cage in the ground) with many grounding rods around his house and property to resolve his problems.

Your observations are very well taken, but fortunately, here in the Kansas City area, we do not suffer from that type of electrical corrosion.

Best wishes,

George


On Oct 9, 2013, at 4:19 PM, johnd at netmac.net wrote:

> dude...  your problem is possibly more involved than that I think ...   
> I would also seriously look at the state of affairs of your entire elect panel...
> check both breakers themselves and copper backbone..
> if you pull breakers and have green oxide deposits on your backbone.. you have the problem.
> 
> what drew my attention was your statement that    
> 
> "I can report that when our AC goes on, some lighting circuits will blink"  for years I think you said
> 
> dude...  they shouldn't blink.. maybe dim somewhat but no blinking...
> 
> classic case of breaker problems...!!!  
> (now this doesn't also mean you don't also have a ground state issues so check it out)  
> if you have any of those types of problems you are also generating electrical noise in your whole house...
> copper oxides can be become semiconductors. 
> 
> i Know this because I live in florida...  a place that is surrounded by salt water on three sides...   
> every year withhout exception I have to remove all my breakers and hose them down with some kind of quality goo..
> or my x-10 stuff (and other things) cause start to cause problems.
> 
> USE NOTHING  that says penetrant (as they are called)  no CR556 (but CR336 is OK)  no LPS no WD40 ever on on anything electrical (or door locks either). (that stuff should be banned... but thats another story.)  Nothing with an acidic additives like phosphoric acid mixed with paraffin
> *phosphoric acid and paraffin and salt and atmospheric moisture make moon rocks (you remember moon rocks... in the fish bowl right).    
> 
> I use a brand called 'Gibbs Brand'  google it....   silly name... killer stuff.  Not cheep stuff either.. but it works even in fla where nothing else works for long
> <http://www.gibbsbrandlubricant.com/>
> (maybe a bit cheeper on amazon)
> be SURE to shake it first.
>  

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