My kitchen stoptop shocked me!! Why?
Question:I was making some of my gourmet Craft Mac -n- Chezze, stirring the noodles in the boiling water, and I got a HUGE shock from the fork I was using to stir with..
Is it just the coil thats bad, the ground for the stove, or the stove itself? its only happened on the one burner..
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The Stove is a cheapy... a Roper free standing oven/ stove 4 burner thing...
Answers:
were you toutching other metal like the range hood .
you need to check the ground wire to your stove
and you need to have your electric service checked for proper ground.
If you have city water you need to make sure there is a ground wire from the electric panel to the incomming water meter.
if no city water check for ground wire to 2 outside ground rods.
Yow! How scary! I will never look at Mac N Cheese the same way again...
I have no idea what the problem is, but that sounds BAD - call an electrician
It is the burner. A stove doesn't have a ground. Most anyway.
Change the burner and you should be fine. Check the kind of burner you have and make sure you get the right kind.
I've found on this ANSWERS thing a lot of people don't know what they are talking about in terms of electricity and really blow the smallest things out of proportion.
But this is very serious. I'm not to fimilar on appliances themselves, just on how to wire them but there should be a fuse or sometype of overcurrent protection device from the burners to sense this type of thing (water or condisation running over, making contact with the tabs the burners go into, then coming back up into your hand, using the water as a conduction) to either blow a fuse, or to trip the breaker at your panel. You need to call someone specializing in appliances to look at this. If you were holding your fork with 2 hands, or hand your other hand on something metal, the electricity would have gone across your heart, and the moustiour on your hands would intisify it even more
Same thing happened to me.
It's the burner. The element covering has worn out and exposing the actual element and you are completing the circuit to ground when you get shocked.
In that you are dealing with 240V. I would not use the thing until I had a pro take a look, although you might decide not to bother and just get a new one.
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