Doug Kanter wrote:
I'm familiar with musicians getting injured or killed during rain at outdoor
venues, but my band will be playing a number of clubs beginning next month,
and I'm wondering about the risks of incorrectly grounded circuits. These
are all indoor situations, by the way. Hypothetical example: Let's say I use
a circuit tester and find that the guitarist's amp is plugged into a
correctly wired outlet, but the microphone mixer is not. There's no
connection from his guitar strings to anything electrical, but there
certainly is through the body of the microphone, and perhaps the stand
itself. Is he at risk only if there are other problems within our equipment,
or at all times due to the wiring faults at the outlets?



well you can typically feel the shock, so its not likely you will die
outright. However, other problems arise. If polarity is reversed you
can create 220v situations between equipment on seperate circuits I
believe. This is espeically problem for your equipment because your
equipment tends to all connect to each other sooner or later. You
definitely want good solid grounds to eliminate the sometimes humm you
can get from ground imbalances.

I would carry a tester with me. I would simply not plug into anything
with reversed polarity. Open ground you can get away with if it sounds
ok and you dont fall in any puddles

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Thank you,



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man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard." Ecclesiastes 9:16