How are Stray Voltage and Stray Current related?
The classical formula says that “current times the resistance it flows through equals the voltage”. At this point the obvious vanishes, because current flow through dirt, through wires, through metal pipes, through concrete, through inonized water, etc. Since the resitances of all of these differ, and the current flow differs (sometime moment by moment), stray voltage detection and relevance assignment can be quite difficult. However, when some system behavior patterns are known, values can be expected to vary predictably, and relevance assignment becomes much easier. Depending on the individual counsultant / investigator’s knowledge of those foundational patterns, his / her conclusion will be as money you can take to the bank, or . . . dirt.
