DONT SAY IT DOESNT HAPPEN CUZ IT JUST HAPPENED TO ME!

[kearney]

so, i was playin guitar (please dont lynch me!!!) and i wanted to play along to my rolling stones rock n roll circus DVD, so as i was touching the strings, i pressed the eject button on the dvd player,

120 volts right thru me!!!! it did what my friend informed me is called a "ground loop"

so this amp is a big ol stinkin P.O.F.S.

and no one wants to buy a shocking amp, specially one thats only 75 watts

[geshel]

eek, ouch. THat's not a "ground loop", a better term would be "faulty ground". (ground loops mostly cause noise in the signal).

And if your strings weren't grounded . . . wouldn't have happened.

[P. Aaron]

A 75 watt amp in the hands of even a beginning guitarist can be a lethal weapon.

[IvanMike]

good chance it may not be your amp but the wiring in your house. Are you using the ground plugs on your amp? and are the outlets in your house properly grounded? This could be a problem with your amp or cd player, but it could be in your house as well. not something to mess with. these situations can be lethal.

[slugworth]

Good thing it wasn't 220/240, or you could have been the guitarist in St. Peter's Rock & Roll revival band...I always
use a power strip with a ground fault indicator. If the red
light comes on, I don't power up.


Be careful

Slug

[Jason Carota]

Originally Posted by slugworth

Good thing it wasn't 220/240, or you could have been the guitarist in St. Peter's Rock & Roll revival band

[_j_]

Originally Posted by kearney

so, i was playin guitar ... 120 volts right thru me!!!!

It's a sign, don't take it lightly

[FenderHotRod]

Originally Posted by slugworth

Good thing it wasn't 220/240, or you could have been the guitarist in St. Peter's Rock & Roll revival band. Slug

Oh 220 is not that bad. It is when it throws you against a wall when it hurts.


and 120 is nothing more then just a bee sting.

still it is no fun getting bit.

[Aaron Saunders]

Originally Posted by _j_

It's a sign, don't take it lightly

+1

[nashvillebill]

What amp were you using? I see a Kustom K150 in your sig, was that it?

If so, and the amp hasn't been modernized with a 3-prong cord, it's a simple problem, and an easy fix. The amp's 2 prong cord must be replaced with a grounded 3 prong.

The amp's polarity switch has a capacitor that is intended to reduce hum in the old ungrounded circuits. One leg of this capacitor goes to the chassis of the amp. This cap can leak, after all you're talking a 30+ year old amp. This leakage makes the chassis "hot" if the chassis isn't grounded and if the chassis is hot, anything on your guitar that has an exposed metal ground is hot.

When putting in the 3 prong cord, snip the leads to the capacitor that's on the polarity switch. Problem solved.

And if your amp has a little hum to it when your guitar cord's not plugged in...your power supply capacitors need replacing. Another relatively simple upgrade.

[Jace The Bass]

When I was a toddler ( 10 years old )
My cousin told me to hold this 20cent piece ( coin ) on a electric fence and yep Kapow although it's not what you went thru but does that count?