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Dear Friends and Senior Members ,
I am from India, Asia and we have the 240 V electrical system. We also have Geyser / Water Heater installed in our home 2 Nos. From the past 2 months I observe that sometimes, really sometimes the water heater installed in my room gives shock, I mean the shock travels from Earth / ground to water heater to tap water and tap, so when i touch tap i get tingling shock. This happens only rarest sometimes. WE called expert electrician to find out problem he checked the earthing and found it perfect and finally concluded that smoetime someone in that apartment ( its total 4 houses ) someone might be using some faulty equipment exaxctly at the same time when i m bathing and heater switched off,, which results in current coming to earthing and transferring to the heater.
so ideal condition for me receiving shcok is
my heater switched off, + I am touching tap + someone using faulty appliance,
since one neighbour is pest i don't talk with him, i feel he must be using faulty appliance like immersion heater etc, so only way out is to get a separate Earth for my apartment.
or fix a diode or cut off Earth when heater switch is off, heater switch is two pole , phase n neutral are cut off but Earth is not..
When heater is switched on nothing happens only when heater is switched off the current / shock is felt sometimes ..
I feel is there any diode which i can fix in earthing wire so that it can allow only earthing from heater to Earth / ground and not receive the Earth from faulty equipments. People mentioned about electric protector which trips as soon as it detects a leak, but also mentioned that its very sensitive and trips to almost minute changes , inductions .
Any help from fellow members ...
I am from India, Asia and we have the 240 V electrical system. We also have Geyser / Water Heater installed in our home 2 Nos. From the past 2 months I observe that sometimes, really sometimes the water heater installed in my room gives shock, I mean the shock travels from Earth / ground to water heater to tap water and tap, so when i touch tap i get tingling shock. This happens only rarest sometimes. WE called expert electrician to find out problem he checked the earthing and found it perfect and finally concluded that smoetime someone in that apartment ( its total 4 houses ) someone might be using some faulty equipment exaxctly at the same time when i m bathing and heater switched off,, which results in current coming to earthing and transferring to the heater.
so ideal condition for me receiving shcok is
my heater switched off, + I am touching tap + someone using faulty appliance,
since one neighbour is pest i don't talk with him, i feel he must be using faulty appliance like immersion heater etc, so only way out is to get a separate Earth for my apartment.
or fix a diode or cut off Earth when heater switch is off, heater switch is two pole , phase n neutral are cut off but Earth is not..
When heater is switched on nothing happens only when heater is switched off the current / shock is felt sometimes ..
I feel is there any diode which i can fix in earthing wire so that it can allow only earthing from heater to Earth / ground and not receive the Earth from faulty equipments. People mentioned about electric protector which trips as soon as it detects a leak, but also mentioned that its very sensitive and trips to almost minute changes , inductions .
Any help from fellow members ...