My av equipments sometimes got electricity charge and i can feel a slight shock when touching them. All gears are plugged in a Tacima unit. Any advice?

got check ur house electric grounding? (earth cable)

This post has been edited by Nine9: May 12 2009, 10:20 AM

I can feel this from the back portion of my Astro decoder as well. Is this normal?

The strange thing is that the slight electric tigling sensation happen when touching the metal parts of the av gears only..my hi-fi setup does not has the problem. The receiver, astro decoder and dvd player..strange!

I had that as well, erm maybe due to some faulty cables.
Now I don't seem to get 'em anymore.

maybe got faulty cables?
last time i encountered this issue before...but the caused for it was the socket being overburdened
i plug to many cable into 1 power socket...maybe got sum over fluctutation causing static
electricity to my component. when i take out sum and plu it sumwhere else, no more electrostatic to me

the cheapest and easiest way to do it is ...

to get cellotape and a wire ... cellotape it the end on the equipment and the other end on the floor

to trouble shoot and determine if cables are faulty, disconnect all cables leaving just the power cable on. do not link any of your eq's at the moment.
turn on/off everything and check, then work your way till the last cable one by one and see if those cables are causing the problem.

If you get the static even without interconnecting your eq's, then you should be able to pin point out which device immediately.

Happy testing bro. & make sure you off everything before connecting any thing just to be safe.

This is not static electricity, right ? Is your room carpeted ?
Maybe the device is not grounded properly.

Too many positively charged things in one place. Negatively charged things are glass, rubber, wood, ceramic.

all your equipment are in 2 pins socket. all u have u to is run a wire from 1 of the socket's earth and touch the end to any of the equipments body. i think your amp should have a ground terminal. should be a screw type where it is for the phono inputs or the spring loaded type where it is for the antenna

Hi scotty i think you are right now that you mentioned it all those gears affected got only 2 pin power socket..dvd, receiver and astro..my integrated amp and cd player got 3 pin power socket and no problem..By George you're a regular Hitchcock!!

oh u mentioned astro. i believe thats the culprit start doing the earth thingy with the astro first

OKAY WILL DO THAT AND SEE WHAT HAPPEN..

get yourself a 3 pin plug, but with the neutral and live pins removed for safety.
the earth pin shall be connected to a cable, which is then connected or "touched" to the equipment casing that's giving you a shock. the plug will be plugged at the power socket for grounding.
if all the AV equipments are connected to each other, the earthing cable that you have created just now only need to be "touched" on any one of the equipments only.

This post has been edited by Skylinestar: May 13 2009, 07:18 PM

i thinks its normal, even my crt monitor that i using got static electricity on the screen, back of my pc also got, not to mention the speaker and printer

just dont touch the metal part will do, if you have children, ask the electrician to take a look and try to fix the problem

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Added on May 19, 2009, 2:13 amare you sure? the tape is plastic

This post has been edited by thken: May 19 2009, 02:13 AM