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HeyBub[_3_]

hr(bob) wrote:
On Dec 17, 8:17 pm, "HeyBub" wrote:
Electric range, metal cooking pot.

Stick a metal spoon in the porridge and get shocked!

Uh, why?

I don't have ANY experience with electric stoves, so any insight
would be appreciated.

Thanks.

All metal surfaces/all of the metal parts of the stov should be
grounded thru the safety ground on the 3 or 4 wire plug. THat should
include the coils that do the actual heating. If you only get ashock
when you are touching something that touches the metal coils, turn off
all of the heating controls and see if you still get a shock, IF you
don't yuou have a leakage somehow in one of the coils and a
potentially serious condition and should call an experienced
electrician to check things out,

Do you have a voltmeter that you know how to use???

I should have mentioned this range is in my son's house. As for myself, I
hold an amateur radio operator's license, a 1st Class Radiotelephone ticket
and, once upon a time, a 2nd class Radiotelegraphers license.

So, of course I know how to use a voltmeter, except for those new-fangled
"digital" ones.