I connected my test meter between the sink and dishwasher and had a
reading of 120v.
I checked the other applicances in the kitchen and found them to all
have the same reading - I eventually traced this to a faulty socket
which I have replaced and all seems ok.
Thanks for all help.
Dave

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Dave A wrote:
I connected my test meter between the sink and dishwasher and had a
reading of 120v.
I checked the other applicances in the kitchen and found them to all
have the same reading - I eventually traced this to a faulty socket
which I have replaced and all seems ok.

Sounds like a broken earth, and the RF suppression in at least one
appliance was dumping volts onto the rest after that socket - which
probably was at such a low current as not to be lethal. However, the ring
should have an earth from both ends - or is it a radial circuit?

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Dave Plowman London SW
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Sounds like a broken earth, and the RF suppression in at least one
appliance was dumping volts onto the rest after that socket - which
probably was at such a low current as not to be lethal. However, the ring
should have an earth from both ends - or is it a radial circuit?

I got a similar "tingle" from the washing machine a few years ago, a
3-neon socket tester showed no earth, the problem turned to be a poor
connection at the screw terminal of the socket, rather than a lack of
earth provided by the ring itself. It looked like water had found it's
way into the surface mounted pattress at some point, not too uncommon in
a kitchen I suppose.

I should have fitted an RCD at that point rather than only gettng round
to it last week I suppose.

Several years earlier I got a jolt from a thinwire ethernet LAN where a
company had imported their PCs from a European sister company, but
instead of replacing the shuko-IEC leads with 3pin-IEC ones had used
3pin-schuko adapters without earth, obviously neither end of the
10base2 had been earthed! We left them to it ...

My skin is an effective fault detector, but perhaps not the safest option!

Dave A wrote:

I checked the other applicances in the kitchen and found them to all
have the same reading - I eventually traced this to a faulty socket
which I have replaced and all seems ok.

Good. For the satisfaction of my curiousity (and those of others
following the thread, I expect) - what was the fault in the socket? Was
it some rare, generally-unlikely internal fault which meant that the
incoming earth wires were well attached to the E terminal in the socket,
but the connection wasn't being made to the plug's E pin?

Or was it something much simpler - loose or simply missing connection to
the E terminal of the socket, or maybe incoming E fixed not to socket
but to the terminal in the back box (which if the socket's plastic,
gives you no earth connection to the socket itself)?

Enquiring minds wanna know... and are glad you're no longer getting
shocks, by the way.

"Stefek Zaba" wrote in message
...
Dave A wrote:

I checked the other applicances in the kitchen and found them to all
have the same reading - I eventually traced this to a faulty socket
which I have replaced and all seems ok.

Good. For the satisfaction of my curiousity (and those of others
following the thread, I expect) - what was the fault in the socket? Was
it some rare, generally-unlikely internal fault which meant that the
incoming earth wires were well attached to the E terminal in the socket,
but the connection wasn't being made to the plug's E pin?

Or was it something much simpler - loose or simply missing connection to
the E terminal of the socket, or maybe incoming E fixed not to socket
but to the terminal in the back box (which if the socket's plastic,
gives you no earth connection to the socket itself)?

Enquiring minds wanna know... and are glad you're no longer getting
shocks, by the way.


We want to know !!!! We want to know !!!!!! Everybody now !!!!! We want to
know !!!!! We want to know !!!!

( LOL !!! Couldn't resist the voices in my head again. :-) )

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:57:48 GMT, "BigWallop"
strung together this:

( LOL !!! Couldn't resist the voices in my head again. :-) )

Erm, yes.....
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