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joebedford
Nomad II
Jun 16, 2013

Shocking! AC power tingle between frame and (real) ground

I was doing something at the back of my RV today and I put one knee down into fairly damp earth (heavy rains here the other day). I steadied myself by leaning my right forearm on the bare aluminum hin...
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Harvard
Explorer
Jun 22, 2013
Wayne, I guessing your 0.4 VAC test setup would have a much smaller source impedance then my 165R. Be careful, I do not want to blow your meter. Better still, get a couple of shunt resistors and measure VAC instead of mA as I did.

The things we don't do for science? :)

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