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Default Got shocked touching electric range and pot rack

On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 22:53:12 -0800 (PST), Jackson Hawk
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OK, this scared the heck out of me.

I was getting a pot off of my pot rack, and I put a pot on a burner of the stove, touching both at the same time, and got a pretty good electric shock.

The burner was off, and the pot rack is not grounded, so I'm REAL confused as to what happened.

The range is a Kenmore. The pot rack is one that I made,


Check the grounding of your electric panel. If the panel is not
properly grounded, earth, may not equal "ground" on the case of the
stove. Next thing is to check the neutral/ground on the stove because
they are the same wire on ranges prior to the 1996 code adoption and a
loose wire on that will impose up to 120v on the case of the stove.