my guitar amplifier has an electric current running in it. i think its because it got wet. not internally, just on the surface on the bottom. now everytime i touch a metal part, i can feel a current running in it. and when i turn it on with the guitar plugged, i get electrocuted with the guitar strings. its not fatal (im still alive typing this) but its really annoying. anyone wanna help ?
2007-07-20 03:44:57 · 6 answers · asked by meee 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
Get a professional to find and fix the problem. There was a preacher here that lost his life as he was baptizing a person the microphone was not in the right position so he touched it and died.
2007-07-20 04:11:12 · answer #1 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may have damaged the insulation between hot wires and the ground wires when the guitar got wet. Now a voltage that should not be present on the grounded metal of the back is at dangerous line voltage. Sooner or later you will touch that while well grounded yourself and the results really could be fatal.
You could try to get it checked out and repaired. Otherwise you could buy a small isolation transformer to plug it into (so that the guitar is powered off the insulated secondary of the transformer not the raw electric from the wall receptacle)..
I think if you get the guitar well grounded you will always blow a fuse and kill the power to it. That will be safe but not very productive.
2007-07-20 03:59:49 · answer #2 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like the chassis of your guitar amp needs to be grounded. This should be done anyway by the design of the amplifier itself, but it does not sound like it is. The problem is that it can be a little trickier than that because if you mess up the grounding of the amplifier you are going to get some bad humming out of it instead.
2007-07-20 03:51:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It needs to be grounded, but what probably happened is the grounding wire in the amp is diconnected, or you are plugging into a bad outlet. BTW: if it's a 3 prong plug, make sure you plug it into a 3 prong outlet. Also, try using a different outlet and see if it happens.
2007-07-20 03:51:23 · answer #4 · answered by Pfo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you still have some moisture in it and when you touch the string you are giving the current a path to ground.Try drying it with a blow dryer.
2007-07-21 13:04:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
check the polarity of the plug.
2007-07-20 11:42:16 · answer #6 · answered by greg w 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋