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I was just electrocuted!

#61
electrocute [ih-lek-truh-kyoot]
verb (used with object), e·lec·tro·cut·ed, e·lec·tro·cut·ing.
1. to kill by electricity.
2. to execute (a criminal) by electricity, as in an electric chair.

Glad you weren't actually electrocuted. I lived in apartments with dodgy wiring in Thailand and got shocked frequently. Usually when just turning lights on.
 
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#66
Back in the day (70's), playing through a Fender Bassman 50, singing through a Shure Vocal Master PA system. Both with two prong cords. Got shocked off the microphones at least every other gig until I bought a Radio Shack voltmeter. Only took a few minutes to figure out which way to switch the reversal switches to keep all of us from getting shocked. We all had Fender amps, including our keyboard/organ player so no one was immune from shock hazard until we took the time to check grounding.

This is one of those cases you really need a qualified person to look at the wall receptacle and then help you sort your connections with a meter. Probably that Cali76 Clone that's the culprit.
 
#73
Basses are not electrically grounded, well your pickups can be grounded to the bridge for hum issues, but bass it's not electrically grounded from anything else basically because it's not getting current from any outlet (that's why active basses need a battery). So we use a jack, with only two wires inside of it (see? no grounding ;) plugged straight into an amp (or with pedals in between). I'm not an electrician, but if you get shocked your bass is getting something from your amp/pedals line, so there's something going wrong with the grounding there, cause otherwise lights should turn off.
By the way, 99'9% pedals in this world work on 9/12/18v DC, if you got "shocked" looks like AC, so I guess we should look to the amp and that ugly wall outlet and general grounding of the place. As someone mentioned before you could stop getting shocked using a wireless unit, but it doesn't resolve the problem at all, you can still get really hurt powering your stereo barefooting for example.
So go find a proper elctrician or go acoustic ;)
 
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Indomit said:
Basses are not electrically grounded, well your pickups can be grounded to the bridge for hum issues, but bass it's not electrically grounded from anything else basically because it's not getting current from any outlet (that's why active basses need a battery). So we use a jack, with only two wires inside of it (see? no grounding ;) plugged straight into an amp (or with pedals in between). I'm not an electrician, but if you get shocked your bass is getting something from your amp/pedals line, so there's something going wrong with the grounding there, cause otherwise lights should turn off.
By the way, 99'9% pedals in this world work on 9/12/18v DC, if you got "shocked" looks like AC, so I guess we should look to the amp and that ugly wall outlet and general grounding of the place. As someone mentioned before you could stop getting shocked using a wireless unit, but it doesn't resolve the problem at all, you can still get really hurt powering your stereo barefooting for example.
So go find a proper elctrician or go acoustic ;)
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Electrician here, If those pedals are powered up and working as normal then it has to be coming from somewhere else IMO. If you are plugged in from Bass > Pedal > Mixer I'm more in mind the Mixer has a problem.

I would be very careful and get an Electrician to look things over there, shocks are more dangerous if the pathway goes through the heart. GFCI/Earth Leakage breakers or plugs are made to protect leakage current.
 
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gearhound22 said:
Electrician here, If those pedals are powered up and working as normal then it has to be coming from somewhere else IMO. If you are plugged in from Bass > Pedal > Mixer I'm more in mind the Mixer has a problem.

I would be very careful and get an Electrician to look things over there, shocks are more dangerous if the pathway goes through the heart. GFCI/Earth Leakage breakers or plugs are made to protect leakage current.
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GROUND FAULT INTERUPT done
 

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