Industrial Hot-Skin Shock…

Anything connected to AC power can develop a hot-chassis voltage and should be properly grounded!

Everyone,

Here’s a reminder Hot-Skin shocks don’t only happen on RVs. They can also occur on home appliances such as refrigerators, as well as industrial machinery. But in those cases we call them a contact voltage or step voltage rather than a hot-skin voltage.

An industrial machinery example

Never accept feeling a shock!

While it was commonplace to feel shocks and tingles from ungrounded appliances back in the ‘40s and ‘50s, all modern wiring should be grounded and most of it GFCI protected.

So if your refrigerator or toaster oven or your guitar amplifier shocks you, then something is wrong with the grounding and it should be repaired immediately.

Let’s work and play safe out there… Mike