Home wiring: is 47V between neutral and ground OK?

Dec 10, 2008 22 Replies

In Tallahassee a few years ago a local insurance agent had several unexplained electrical fires in his office suite. Photos in the paper showed an electrical outlet with the wall above it burned as if the romex cable had burned. He hired an EE professor from FSU who postulated that EM waves from a nearby cellular tower were concentrating energy into his office! I think more likely he had those backstabbed outlets and the office workers were plugging an electric heater into the outlets.

I've seen nearly this exact scenario, only the wire lost contact and opened the circuit before it got that far and it wasn't a heater, it was just several computers. EM waves from a cellular tower? That's ludicrous!

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