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Default shock from electric stove

On Jun 27, 11:41*am, Hipupchuck wrote:
TimR wrote:
Kids complained they got a shock from the stove.


I put a meter on it, a pan on the burner while turned on is 40 volts
above ground. *The rest of the stove metal seems to be at ground.


The burners look in good shape but it's an old stove. *Burners
normally have ceramic insulation, right? *Is it time to replace them?


Probably just static.


Faulty element and/or the element is ungrounded?
Best to trouble shoot it and perhaps replace the element as a
precaution.
But the 40 volts may be just the sensitive test meter picking up
voltage through capacitive coupling; not a real 'short' between the
element and the metal pan. Try connecting a light bulb between the
metal pan and the grounded metal stove. If it lights you have 'real'
leakage (some times incorrectly called a 'short-circuit'') through the
element to to the metal pan.