I have spoken to him this morning and they were Hagar not MEM and it was a string of lights that had been wired with a dead short live - earth fault in the middle of the run .
Now E54 please don't shoot the messenger !:grinningelf:
But the reading on the the incomer rod was 0.2 ohms and the one at the tennis courts was 16 ohms .
I know it sounds like they are impossible readings but to give i little context , when i say farm what he actually owns is a small hamlet built around the stock yards and grain stores with his ( And i am being honest here , if you pm me i will forward a link off forum to the farm website ) small castle in the middle of this lot , which the whole lot in turn is sited on a medieval village earth works !
It don't stop there ! The whole site was until around 20 or so years ago a ministry of defence listening post which was peppered with 100-150ft aerials , the large highly secure 1 - 2 acre compound which they fed back to is still there but privately owned by him , with the tennis courts situated about half way between ( 150 m or so ) the incomer to the farm and the compound .
The incomer to the farm is about 5m away from the hamlets transformer with the compound on its own MASSIVE transformer , and the whole lot is on a private network because of it's past ties to the ministry ! I know this for sure because there was a fault in the feed from the next village going to the compound last year caused by Central Networks , so they had to supply a temp genny , but as it was a private network we had to make the connections for them !?:38:
Sorry for the ramble but i hope that gives a better picture as to the readings .