Metal locker can feel small electric current when opening door

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Grownomore

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I have a 1 plant grow and I have a metal locker in hydro setup.... Starting today I touched the closet door metal and I can feel a small electric current running like a pricker. What could be causing this as it doesn't happen when I touch the locker only when I'm touching metal in the metal locker ?? Only thing I did different today was move the carbon scrubber on the outside of the closet.
 
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Bump please... Like I said Very small current in the metal handle o the metal locker and small metal screws in back.... When I touch just metal no current... Should I be worried ??
 
racerboy71

racerboy71

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try and run a ground / earth wire to some where in your house that is safe, that should hopefully cut out the slight shocking you're experiencing imvho..
 
racerboy71

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Grownomore said:
Should I be worried, can it start a fire, is this common ??? Run the wire from where to where ??
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i don't think it'd start a fire, and sure, anything metal that you're running electric to has a chance of becoming hot, or carrying electric if you will..
i was just looking for a pix guide in google images, but didn't find anything good. i'll go look on youtube right quick..
 
DeeTee

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Is the Carbon scrubber grounded? that is to say does it have a 3 pronged plug? I doubt it would cause a fire, too little voltage but still worth fixing, I would assume that by grounding the metal locker racerboy means attach a wire to the locker and attach it to say a nearby radiator if you have one, make sure you scrape off what ever paint or coating before attaching wire to locker to make sure of a good connection.
 
racerboy71

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DeeTee said:
Is the Carbon scrubber grounded? that is to say does it have a 3 pronged plug? I doubt it would cause a fire, too little voltage but still worth fixing, I would assume that by grounding the metal locker racerboy means attach a wire to the locker and attach it to say a nearby radiator if you have one, make sure you scrape off what ever paint before attaching wire to locker to make sure of a good connection.
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yeah, that's exactly what i meant dee tee.. you'd just need to run a metal bolt or w/e into the back of the box, attach a wire to bolt/ lug, and attach to a large metal object in your home, like a radiotor would work nicely imo... in the links i put up, they said a water pipe, but that sounds like a pita to me..
 
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Small current only started today when I took "air sock" out of cabinet and put it behind the cabinet. Pic 1 shows the fan, pick 3 shows air sok behind the cabinet so fan in cabinet is now sucking air and blowing it through air sok... Ballist was also a little warm to the touch.... Current comes and goes and is very small... Pick 4 shows shock buster
 

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DeeTee said:
Is the Carbon scrubber grounded? that is to say does it have a 3 pronged plug? I doubt it would cause a fire, too little voltage but still worth fixing, I would assume that by grounding the metal locker racerboy means attach a wire to the locker and attach it to say a nearby radiator if you have one, make sure you scrape off what ever paint or coating before attaching wire to locker to make sure of a good connection.
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Per the pics I put up, the fan (fan that sucks air into air sok pics 1&2) has two prongs for electric, not 3... The air sock has no electric...
 
mc130p

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I don't know tbh, it wasn't my building so I don't know how they fixed it. It was an aircraft hangar and whenever you would ground the aircraft in the hangar, you could go up and touch the metal on the aircraft and get a slight shock. I think the building ground wasn't proper or sth, but idk really.
 
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mc130p said:
Yeah, it's definitely a bad ground somewhere. I've experienced this before.
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Could it be as simple as plugging into a different plug (same location). Resetting my shockbuster (yellow thing in pics)... However it just started today when I moved air scrubber outside of cabinet and connected the metal fitting to the back of the metal cabinet (pic 3).
 
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mc130p said:
I don't know tbh, it wasn't my building so I don't know how they fixed it. It was an aircraft hangar and whenever you would ground the aircraft in the hangar, you could go up and touch the metal on the aircraft and get a slight shock. I think the building ground wasn't proper or sth, but idk really.
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Like I said its not doing it now... I would describe it like a TENS machine at the chiropractor on very low.
 
mc130p

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Grownomore said:
I would describe it like a TENS machine at the chiropractor on very low.
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Yeah, I was on night shift so I just wore gloves and ignored it. It was only a light shock anyway, and in the morning I reported it to people who cared, lol.
 
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Now that I think of it this was only happening when the washer and or dryer was on... Also sometimes in my house the light will dim quickly if we have the microwave on or the frig switches on.
 
East Coast

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Loose neutral ?

Earth everything, daisy chain from door to cabinet, to anything metal, then back to a earth rod or the like, what ever used in your country to earth.
 
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