[Rhodes22-list] question about electricity

[Alan Robertson]

Did you get a big spark or a pulsating current on your hand and did ever occur when touching a non-metallic surface?? Depending on your reply I'll contact a sailing friend who is an electrical engineer specializing in high voltage current for his answer.
Alan Robertson
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: CarolN8 at aol.com<mailto:CarolN8 at aol.com> 
  To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org<mailto:rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> 
  Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 5:01 PM
  Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] question about electricity


  I'm Carol from Colorado, and I try to monitor the list but there  are so many 
  postings, that I usually can't keep up. I did have this problem  a few years 
  ago, and it was BAD. The boat would carry a charge and we'd get  seriously 
  shocked when we touched anything. This only occurred when there were  storms in 
  the area, and there was one day when we actually could hear the buzz  in the 
  stays! It was very nervracking. I never did figure out what caused it. We  did 
  unhook the batteries and it didn't change anything. The only thing I could  
  come up with is the electricity from the storm somehow was charging the boat. I  
  haven't been on the boat lately when storms are nearby so for all I know, it  
  could happen again. Sorry that I can't offer more help.
   
  Carol
  s/v Painkiller



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