On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 23:47:51 GMT, Dan wrote:

On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 23:07:07 GMT,
wrote:


If you've had the patience to read through all the character
assasination and BS on this thread, I'm going to offer that if you
have enough current to feel it, you've got a real problem that should
be addressed.

Yep.

My long distance diagnosis would be a bad ground
connection at the main power supply or another circuit lower down,
you do need to get this fixed, it is potentially dangerous and I think
a real electrician, or the power company, should be involved, I
really wish this newsgroup didn't have to absorb the overflow of the
nastiness on HVAC,com, but that seems to be what's going on just now,

Dan

Gee, it seemed to me that someone calling himself 'Pop' took
it upon himself to throw 4 paragraphs of **** at me. Seems he's
home-grown right here, not alt.hvac.

It seems to me that some idjits here are trying to explain 30
V to ground on the chassis of a kitchen appliance as 'Oh, that's OK,
nothing to wory about' and 'it must be your meter' and other excuses,
where the ONLY correct, safe-for-the-OP answer is 'This may be a
serious problem, get it checked out ASAP'. Not 'go get a light bulb
and see if it lights up' or that other bull****.

Well, let me tell you - I'll never forget a service call I was
on many many years ago. Some moron had tried to 'fix' a 4-burner
electric built-in cooktop with a burnt socket by taking the wire and
using a clamp to attach it to the OUTSIDE of the burner element. This
gave the entire cooktop, including the chrome trim, 120 V to ground ,
with 40 A behind it. I found out when I leaned against it. I felt 'a
tingle', just like this guy felt ( but more so ).

I'm glad it was me instead of the 80 + year old folks living
there, cause it probably would have killed them.

Some 'expert', just like the ones that post here, had 'fixed'
it for them. And damned near killed them.

Seems there are some others here, too, that don't know
****-all about electricity, but feel it appropriate to hand out advice
to poor innocent home-owners.

And when someone calls 'bull****' on their stupidity, then
they start handing out all kinds of personal crap.

And it grew right here, it didn't just blow in on the wind
last week.


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