[Jewelry making - Article 00253] - Re: [Orchid] Electrical question

[Jastws]

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Janet,

    You have a grounding problem. If your kiln plug has only two prongs,
    it is not properly grounded. If you are getting a "tingle" from
    other appliances in your house, the wiring system in your house in
    not properly grounded either. There are actually 2 "grounded"
    conductors in a residential electrical system. One is the "neutral"
    wire (white color) which comes from the center tap of the power
    company's transformer. The other one is the "equipment" ground wire
    (bare copper). Even though both conductors are "grounded" they serve
    two distictly different purposes. The purpose of the equipment
    grounding conductor is personnel safety. 

    Even though the outlets in your house may be of the grounding type
    (accepts 3 prong plug), they may not be properly wired. I suspect
    that the system's neutral conductor is also being used as the
    equipment grounding conductor somewhere in your house. A hardware
    store or building supply store like Home Depot has a test plug that
    costs less than $10. They are very easy to use. You just plug it
    into an outlet and indicators lights on the device will tell you if
    the outlet is wired correctly. 

    It is not voltage that kills. It is current. It only takes about 5
    milliamps of current to stop the heart. Your husband may not be able
    to detect the tingle like you do simply because his body's
    resistance may be greater than yours. The tingle you feel is not
    "all in your head". Just because an electrician has a "license", it
    does not mean he/she is competent. I strongly urge your to find an
    electrician who will: 

    1. Take you seriously 

    2. Thoroughly explain to you and your husband what is wrong and  
    what needs to be done to remedy the problem. 

    A competent electrician is a teacher as well as a technician. A
    competent electrician relishes an opportunity to share his/her
    knowledge rather than his/her ignorance. 

Tim



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