electrifying!!!!!

[latnl8rzdude]

I've just been zapped by my starview! it was huge! my finger tips are numb. I had my hand on the cover and reached for the coax an POW! any1 else experienced the same?? any advise (im no electrician) on fixing?? OUCH!

[chalky 4]

Rubber gloves.

[boomer39]

no sparky myself but guess its low voltage 12-24v, get this when messing with cable input co-ax. ynwa

[auldduffer]

Hmm, I wouldn't have expected the line voltage to be high enough to give you a bad shock. Sometime I get a slight tingling if I'm earthed when messing about with the co-ax. You probably earthed a static build-up from yourself down the coax or through the Starview casing. Static charges can be in the kV region. But low current :-)

[latnl8rzdude]

yes ive had the slight tingle before but this was huge and tripped the fuse. Well I'm still here so it couldn't have been that big a shock eh!

[Devilfish]

I've had the tingle plenty times before playing disconnecting/connecting etc. (sweaty palms and all that jazz) but never a bolt. Does the box still work?

[jazzylover]

I've just been zapped by my starview! it was huge! my finger tips are numb. I had my hand on the cover and reached for the coax an POW! any1 else experienced the same?? any advise (im no electrician) on fixing?? OUCH!

I use to have this problem when messing around with the Reply box. The problem was that the metal casing was floating at around 60 volts. So if I touched an earthed object or the cable I would be moonwalking down the road.

[Lanxman]

My girlfriends vm box does exactly the same! But the box she has from them looks like a death trap anyway so it's no surprise really.

[BHX]

These sorts of things are double insulated and therefore require no earth, does mean occasionally you might get a tingle here and there.