Static Shock From Door Handle

What you might not know is how static electricity happens.

Static shock from door handle.

Your refrigerator draws lots of power and actually has a delicate wiring system especially the older it is. In effect i m gathering static charge and every time i grab an aluminum door handle that current discharges and that hurts. When i m going to touch door handle first i take my skeletool a stainless steel multitool and touch the door handle with it. If you touch metal water or another person when your body is highly charged the charge is discharged quickly as the material is highly conductive.

Even a tiny 100 volt jolt is enough to cause you to wince. I invented a way to workaround that. The voltage will dissipate into the metal painlessly. Many people ask why they experience shocks when they touch something metal e g.

Another thing you can do is to touch something metal more frequently this way you discharge any small build up and if you do it enough you won t feel the shocks as they re too small. At night you should be able to see the blue spark leaping from your hand to the metal. A door handle filing cabinet lift window frame photocopier etc. Host dianna cowern explains exactly why exiting your car can cause a nasty static shock when you touch the.

At that level the jolt is pretty good. Stick pieces of rubber onto the handle of your filing cabinets or ask work to sort this for you. Winter leather seats woolen car coats and car doors all conspire on super cold wintry days to deliver static shocks that can run up to 300 volts or more. It all starts with a tiny thing called an atom.

Lay an earthed conductive doormat in front of the door so when you walk on it the built up static charge on your body is drained through the mat. If the wall or door is made of wood concrete or some other material that has low or intermediate conductivity any static charge on your body escapes slowly and usually does not cause a shock. All materials are made up of electrically charged atoms. In the universe there are equal amounts of negative electrical charge electrons and positive charge protons.

Here are a few things that might have you saying to yourself my refrigerator shocks me. The voltage discharges when you touch the car door causing a painful static shock. Well then you already know something about the effects of static electricity. You can prevent this by holding onto a metal part of the door frame as you leave your seat.

Have you ever been shocked when you touched a doorknob a car door handle or a water fountain.