electricity being weird?

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so here it is some how theres a connection between my wind turbine pole and my ground rod ..that are 20 feet apart and the ground rod isent for grounding that turbine basicly i hooked up the grid ties for that wind turbine so that when the other systems batteries were full they would dump to the turbines system but when i tested it it all started working and i realized i hadent connected the negative yet so i was like....wtf? the only way the negative could have been getting to the other system was through the ground 20 feet left up a pole then down throught the turbines negative and into the system so i unhooked the ground on the battery negative as ur sappose to ground that and it all turned off... i was like ok then and i connected the negative for the panels the way its sappose to work and everything worked fine what i wonder is how can ground become that good of a conducter? at that distance?

Prometheus · Accepted Answer

moist soil is an excellent conductor of electricty, mainly because there is so much of it. Dont forget that it can act as a capacitor as well, and it is possible to simply dump a negative / positive charge into the ground without any opposing charge to balance it.. Electricity is tricky stuff and it is very easy to make mistakes unless you have a thorough training in the technology. You can never assume anything when working with it. Always follow the instructions TO THE LETTER.

Cool_Boy · Answer

The only way to describe this scenario is going to be hard. Now that you did the experiment, you should be able to make a good hypothesis, but your question is good. Isn't it funny that you expect something to not happen and it dies?

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