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On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 16:50:03 -0600, Luke wrote:

Our TV reception, from a roof antenna, was intermittently flaky.
Trying to find the problem, I got a shock when I touched both the TV
F-connector and coax cable antenna lead. So I put a tester on and to
my surprise got a 75 volt reading.

DVD player around to plug it into all circuits. I also get ~30 volts
off the housing of an old stand mixer in the kitchen.

This isn't normal, is it?

NO. It's dangerous. It's gonna kill someone.

Ignore the illiterate hacks Matt and Turtle aka Weasel, and
get a licensed electrician in there NOW to find out what's going on,
before it kills you. You have neither the tools nor the training to
continue.

You either have a lifted neutral, or ground, and either one
can kill you, or burn your house down.

BTW - I'm a licensed Master Electrician, unlike the plumber
and the hack mentioned above.


BTW, I'm an electical engineer; so what? He DOES have the tools, he used
them in order to post here, and he also has the advice to work that out
without bringing in a hi-priced electrician (yet) to tell him it's induced
voltages or worse yet a few thousand in repairs, most of which he probably
doesn't need. IFF the equipment came as two-wire, he's fine. If he's
fiddled with removing ground pins for two prong outlets eg plugged 3-wires
into unearthed outlets, he's not likely to call in an electrician, is he?
Thimk man, thimk! Yes, I said thimk!
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