
07-23-2009, 10:47 PM
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in a quick response no there is no one above a regular electrician or one that specializes in residential who is a snap fix sort of person. electricity is very illusive and tricky. it will seek the most easiest path to a good ground. #1 your panelbox should be grounded at two points. 1) a water pipe ground. 2) an auxilarry driven or "made electrode" do you have town water and are you connected to the town's water system? do you have a well? if you have a well and your water piping is grounded to the house's water system then the entire house's water system is charged to 120 volts! have your electrician check the made electrode or driven ground - wire. maybe it has become disconnected or just plain corroded off the ground clamp. tell him to use a dry rag to move the bare ground around at the ground rod. something else to try. shut off the main breaker. take a piece of #6 bare copper and connect one end inside the panelbox to the neutral ground bar and the other end to a known good copper pipe ground that actually goes into the ground somewhere. then throw the breaker ON. if the breaker blows then something is feeding power on to the neutral wire somewhere in the house. if the breaker doesn't blow take a meter and go from the water pipe to another ground point, the test bare copper wire and see what you read. should be zero volts. if you read anything other than zero something is grounded through the neutral and this is energizing your water system.
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