Timeline for Electric shock from pedals and guitar. Jacks too long?
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| Sep 8, 2019 at 13:10 | comment | added | Tetsujin | There's no way to tell without stripping the pedal. Plastic sockets tend to have a 'back' as part of the moulding. Others literally just two bits of spring steel, nothing else. There should be, design-wise, absolutely nothing that could ever possibly get anywhere near any mains voltage behind there, whatever you poke it with. | |
| Sep 8, 2019 at 11:46 | comment | added | Andrew Leach | Should the groove in the tip of the jack not mate with something in the socket to stop it going in too far? Or the socket actually not be long enough to allow the jack to go too far in? (That's not a criticism of the answer, but I'm curious and it might be useful information to add) | |
| Sep 7, 2019 at 16:07 | comment | added | Tetsujin | I always thought that was the only way to test they worked :P Seriously, though, you can eliminate battery-powered pedals from the equation, but not something mains-powered, even with a wall-wart. | |
| Sep 7, 2019 at 15:42 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | @Tetsujin Clearly you’ve never touched one to your tongue. | |
| Sep 7, 2019 at 15:02 | comment | added | Tetsujin | I'm not sure how you could ever get a shock from a 9v battery | |
| Sep 7, 2019 at 14:42 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | @Tetsujin Battery pedals at least are not dangerous, but if I were feeling a shock and narrowed it down to a battery powered pedal, I would still want it fixed. A) the shock would be annoying and B) I expect whatever fault would affect both sound and battery life. | |
| Sep 7, 2019 at 14:41 | history | edited | Todd Wilcox | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 7, 2019 at 14:40 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Get the pedals checked too if they run off mains power. Battery pedals are fine. | |
| Sep 7, 2019 at 14:37 | history | answered | Todd Wilcox | CC BY-SA 4.0 |