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an electric shock off the tv ariel? i didnt think this was possible. someone clever explain. |
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static. |
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Either that or his TV is very poorly earthed and he got away lightly. ;) |
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i thought that, but i got it just as i was plugging it into the back of the tv. maybe it really was just that. |
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happens to me all the time, with lots of electrical appliances. i can't even make toast without getting a jolt. |
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during winter i get shocked by everything. must be because the humidity is so low or sommot |
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it might be static. |
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your TV hates you. you must appease your TV to prevent this happening again. Take it somewhere it likes to go. Cook it a meal, or give it a bath. You have to make it happy. |
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make sure that the plug is correctly wired and none of the wires are loose or crossing each other. |
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I think it was God's will, and He was trying to kill you. That's the most likely explanation. |
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Didn't mythbusters test something with getting power from antennas? something radio waves, something something... I don't think they got anything much, but they did get a reading of some sort, can't remember what, but it could quite possibly be enough to give you a small prick-of-the-finger kind of thing... |
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no. Radio waves are by their very nature transmitting power. They can be used to power very simple AM radios for example since the AM radio transmits a huge amount of power (very inneficient) and the radio only has 1 transistor and an earpiece for example. Even so, the amount of power is tiny, unless you happen to live nextdoor to the antenna. The shock was either: static electricity. or high voltage getting onto the aerial from the TV due to poor grounding. This happens in CRT because the tube needs a high voltage to shoot the electrons at the screen. or God's will. |
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static. i'd bet the ranch on it. |
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Hahah |
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Yeah, I didn't think so. Do you remember what they got as a power reading from their rig, though? |
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Your panels left and right breakers are unevenly compensated. For instance, there may be one too many appliances on one side, and something small like bedroom lighting and such on the other. Both sides have to compensate until the neutral wire carries 0 AMP. If it's uneven, the neutral can be carrying up to 20-60 AMP. Very dangerous. |
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I get shitloads of static, and it can get really quite violent/strong sometimes. |
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I didn't watch whatever it is you're on about. I'm just saying that radiowaves carry energy, but only enough to power micro lower power devices like a radio with a single transistor and small in ear phone. No way that is enough to give you a shock. The "self-powered" radio works best with AM because the AM signals carry a lot of power to transmit the carrier signal compared to FM which is lower in power due to boring technical reasons. The power greatly depends on the distance to the transmitter since the radiated power is proportional to the distance squared. Some high power radars have barriers around them to keep people away because they get too close and the power is too high. Since eyes cannot sweat, they can absorb this radiated power and get too hot, promoting cateracts in later life. Or maybe it's God's will. |
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They were testing myths about "free energy" (all busted), and one of them was that you could somehow tap into the energy in the radio waves. They made an antenna, and were supposed to attach some sort of device to it to make electricity, but I remember the device first shorted out (I can't remember what caused it, but I doubt it was the amount of power in the antenna). They also measured the level of energy in the antenna with one of them fancy yellow boxes that measure such things and I remember them just saying it was something like maybe a small battery, but they could also just have said that "it's not even as much as a small battery" or whatever. Anyway, I've had a shock from an antenna wire before, but it isn't more than you'd get from one of those electric lighter clicky-things. |
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I don't think that will apply because the UK mains wiring uses a single phase ring circuit. What you are talking about is having different phases on different sockets, which would lead to an unbalanced load and neutral currents. This does not happen in the UK, since we use a single phase for domestic power, which means you can't have unbalanced loads on different phases, because everything is on the same phase. |
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alright. I wasn't too sure about the way it goes in the UK. |
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I got it just from picking it up, btw.. I wasn't connecting it to the tv when I got the shock, so the shock wasn't from the tv. |
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touch a car roof on a hot sunny day. that gives you the best shock. |
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i got a static shock so strong one time, fairly recently, that i saw it actually fuckin spark... crazy shit i tells ya! |
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