Shocking!!

[School_Farmer]

Whatever you do don't give this story to the US transportation sec. Evryone in the world will eating cold food.

LOL!

Seriously, my parents rented a lake house one summer. The house was a older and had a metal kitchen counter. I quickly discovered touching parts of the stove and the counter at the same time gave a good shock, even when nothing on the stove was "on." Obviously there was some kind of wiring fault combined with a bad ground on the stove. I'm surprised we weren't killed.

Things like this happen. Go over that stove with a good multimeter. Something is live.

There is no way anybody is going to wave a metal tool quickly enough through the field of even a big surface element to generate a shock.

 

[archerm3]

jeebus...if you can get an electric shock off of the EMF of 4 coils of wire...and a wire wisk...I do believe you have yourself a breakthrough in electronic technology...lol

All my utensils and pots are metal...all my stoves are electric...never once a shock.

Though I think I might try to magnetize some screwdrivers on the stove BWAHAHAHAHAH.


OP needs to check his wiring! :confused2:

 

[hitekcountry]

Ok so I went back and checked the stove with a volt meter. Turned on the burner and probed the top of the burner and got 0 volts, but as the burner heated up I began to get a reading and the voltage began to climb. By the time the burner was fully on the voltage reading was between 25 and 30 volts. Apparently there was some breakdown of the insulator of the conductor in the burner.

Anyway my choices were to either replace the burners at around $25 to $30 each and some additional connectors and wiring for a parts cost of between $150 to $200 plus labor in which case I would still have an old stove or to just buy a new stove and not have to worry. I just had a new stove installed.

 

[kebo]

quote:"I just had a new stove installed."

Much cheaper than a lawsuit, and a three piece suit to defend you against the lawsuit!