Need the help of a electrician asap

[budsahoy]

Hey all

I have something weird going on in my room and I think its either being caused by static electricity or I have a bare wire somewhere.

When I touch the aluminium venting between my filter and cool tube and from my cool tube to my fan I get a mild electric shock sensation. Its not strong at all, I can leave my hand on it for quite a while it just feels like a slightly annoying vibration in my hand. Also to note is the light can be off and unplugged and I still feel the sensation. When I touch the fan its self I dont feel a thing. What the heck is going on?

I have always been sensitive to electricity. As a kid and to this day I cant wear a watch because the battery dies in a week. I am also a plumber and there are times that I can feel a shock from the ground wire in a house when I am soldering pipe.

Thanks everyone. I hope to get some solid answers here before I have to talk to a electrician friend who does not know about the grow but would probably be cool with it as we blaze together weekly

buds

 

[Mikell]

This may sound odd, but try raising your hands in a similar fashion away from the grow.

I sometimes have an electrical tingling in the hands/arms from also ruining my back in crawl spaces and other delightful cesspools of manual labour. Hands above the shoulders, spread wide and with the spine in just the right place usually does it.

Or perhaps a much more obvious to an electrician solution.

 

[FireIn.TheSky]

You have a problem with your grounding.

You should have a solid ground connection from the plug all the way to the panel, your ground is fucked up either in the circuit wiring or on your reflector.

If the ground was working properly that energy would dissipate on its own.

 

[FireIn.TheSky]

Come to think of it, you could also have a loose connection on the neutral which is causing the ground to become electrically charged.

It's probably one or the other but either way you need to check the wiring from end to end. Start at the reflector and check all electrical connections until you find it. You will have to check every receptacle box on that circuit.

The neutral is considered the grounded conductor and the green is the grounding conductor.

If you lose the neutral the green wire will carry the unbalanced load.


I would get a plug in receptacle tester from home depot, plug that in and it will tell you if your circuit wiring is ok. Then start checking ballasts and reflectors.

 

[budsahoy]

Come to think of it, you could also have a loose connection on the neutral which is causing the ground to become electrically charged.

It's probably one or the other but either way you need to check the wiring from end to end. Start at the reflector and check all electrical connections until you find it. You will have to check every receptacle box on that circuit.

The neutral is considered the grounded conductor and the green is the grounding conductor.

If you lose the neutral the green wire will carry the unbalanced load.


I would get a plug in receptacle tester from home depot, plug that in and it will tell you if your circuit wiring is ok. Then start checking ballasts and reflectors.

Thanks FireIn.TheSky

Tonight when the light came on I tried touching everything again and I experienced no shock sensation. Weird.

I will go though all of the wiring right away and see whats u

 

[FireIn.TheSky]

Thanks FireIn.TheSky

Tonight when the light came on I tried touching everything again and I experienced no shock sensation. Weird.

I will go though all of the wiring right away and see whats up

Not that surprising, the charge probably has to build up after a while.

Try again later after a few hours.

I mean it could be static, but the metal enclosure of the reflector is grounded, so any static build up would dissipate.

The fact that there is an electrical charge built up tells me something is off somewhere down the line.

 

[Phaeton]

I had a refrigerator that would tingle me if I brushed against it while holding a metal fan with a three prong plug. Curiosity led me to the refrigerator plug where the previous owner had cut off the grounding prong.
Everything was good unless I held a grounded object at the same time the refrigerator was running. The tingle started harder than its steady state, leaving me to assume the capacitor on the motor was crossing over to the motor frame, to the refrigerator frame, to the door, to my arm, to my other hand, to the fan frame, and then to the grounding wire itself.

The point being, electricity is sneaky and will use any path or method possible to travel.

 

[Shooter350]

Could be static electricity coming from the air movement. Moving partials will cause static. If you don't find it soon, I would put a ground wire on the vent tube. I have. Even wrong before. Peace

 

[MrBungle]

whats your humidity like in the room?

 

[AvidLerner]

It is a loose ground. FireinThe Sky is correct. it builds up over time. humidity could be a factor but that is static only and come can from any emitting source, not just electrical circuits. I would check fan connections, ensure you have a visible ground path to your electrical outlet from your lighting system. It sounds like a floating ground, meaning two pieces of equipment need to physically touch in a certain way and they lose that physical connection, when they don't. make sure your components are connected tightly as well. ground comes from common elements like cases, etc.

 

[Shooter350]

I reread your post. Start with pulling the outlet your light is plugged into. I have been gutting my shop because of some scary wiring I found. Can't trust any of it after two major violations. Previous owner put an exterior light in with no box, no shield of any kind thru the wMetal wall. And used but connectors to try and connect the wires. All wrong. I shut it all down and started rewiring. Don't trust anyone's work! Pull it out. It may be a broken wire that you can't see. I just put a Romex connector on my mother in laws water heater that was installed by a professional. The ground was broke in half. I've been in ccommercial construction a long time. Trust nobody!!!!! I can't figure out how google doesn't work for people. Sorry for the rant. I will humiliate professionals on a job site for incompetent work. I feel they deserve it. Stay strong and learn how to do everything yourself. Damn, I'm going to toke.

 

[Shooter350]

I reread your post. Start with pulling the outlet your light is plugged into. I have been gutting my shop because of some scary wiring I found. Can't trust any of it after two major violations. Previous owner put an exterior light in with no box, no shield of any kind thru the wMetal wall. And used but connectors to try and connect the wires. All wrong. I shut it all down and started rewiring. Don't trust anyone's work! Pull it out. It may be a broken wire that you can't see. I just put a Romex connector on my mother in laws water heater that was installed by a professional. The ground was broke in half. I've been in ccommercial construction a long time. Trust nobody!!!!! I can't figure out how google doesn't work for people. Sorry for the rant. I will humiliate professionals on a job site for incompetent work. I feel they deserve it. Stay strong and learn how to do everything yourself. Damn, I'm going to toke.

Who was that guy? Lol. I feel better after my trip to the woodshed.