for some reandom reason, i've been having a lot of static elictricity in me?

Question

today almost any metal that i touched, i got electrocuted (not shocked). i tried to turn on a lamp and i felt that tingly feeling when u get electrocuted. The lamp thing is like a metal chord which you pull. Also, i was handling my camcorder, and when i touched the LCD screen (camcorder turned on), this time i got shocked. When this happened a line appeared across the screen where i touched it.

This happened even when i put my sweater over my hand. Recently before this, i had just come from outside where i took the bus from somewhere. Does anybody know why this happened? and how could i reduce the electricity in my body. One thing i did to reduce the electricity is exercise/work-out. Does this actually work to reduce it?

Answer 1

Check the amount of humidity in your living/ workspace. Perhaps it's too dry. You are also generating static from the clothing you wear and the movements that you make.

Answer 2

Is it winter now where you are? In general, temperature and humidity plays a big role in the distribution of static charges. In other words, on cold, dry winter days, the charges accumulate on your body and don't dissipate as well. Until you touch metal and then, zap!

To reduce it, you could screw a braided metal wire into your shin bone and let it drag behind you on the ground. That might be a little drastic.

Going barefoot on carpet should reduce the amount of charge, and if that doesn't work, always use your key or some other piece of metal to make the initial contact with a metallic surface. Then the spark occurs but you won't feel it, just see it.

The line you saw on your comcorder was simply the electrons that were discharged and dispersed on your lcd screen. BTW, the use of the term electrocuted usually pertains to current flowing until death occurs. Since you were able to write this question and didn't mention that this was your last request, I am assuming that you were only shocked by the static.

Answer 3

I don't think that tingling feeling is from static electricity in your body. You've likely got a short in that lamp and I probably wouldn't use it until you can verify that you don't

As for increased static electricity:
Probably it has either gotten cold and/or dry where you live (that you're wearing sweaters is also a tip off). Dry air increases static electricity. When it gets cold people run heaters and if those heaters are electric radiant or forced air the surrounding air gets really dry which increase static electricity.

It may also be that you've installed new carpeting (or have moved to somewhere with new carpeting.)

Build up of static electricy is caused by rubbing against things while insulated from the ground (so thick soled rubber shoes could also be a factor.)

Answer 4

You are not producing static as much as acting as a vehicle for it. In the winter months when the humidity is low, static charges are more easily triggered. The easiest solution is to use fabric softener sheets in the clothes dryer or to spray your clothes with Static Guard - made by 3M - or both. You may also spray it on synthetic surfaces like carpeting and bedding but do not spray it on electrical or electronic equipment what so ever. If that fails, a grounding device may be your only viable answer. Touch something besides your computer equipment first to discharge the static.

Answer 5

its not random at all, the air is dry because its cold and being artificially heated, get a humidifier for your house, cold air wont hold as much water vapor as hot air will.