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Static Shocks from Car Doors (pg. 2)
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| Boomer187 |
| i like the shock. its funny when Im driving someone else around and they get out first. Shocks the poo outta them everytime. |
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| [N]ûk|êû[Z] |
| i cut my finger a few days back and stuck my finger under the tap in the kitchen and turned the cold water on.. and i got what i can only think is a static shock or an electric sumthing or other thru the water, and i felt it all thru my hand.. has anyone had this before? i thought it was nothing at first and then when i stuck my hand under the running water again it did it again, but not done it since, any ideas? :conf: |
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| KilldaDJ |
| wear driving gloves or lick ur finger before u touch door handle. |
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| nchs09 |
NO WORRIES FELLA TA!!!! i have solved this problem!
when u open the door, stay seated... before u pick ur ass up from the seat, grab on to the part outside the door that shocks up, dont let go of it untilll ur compleatly out of the car and VUALA! no shock! |
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| DarkFall01 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Coup
I recently got a new car, and the summer is here and when i get out after a drive, i get a static shock from the door when i push the outside to close it. its not harmful, and doesnt "hurt", but its very annoying. how can i stop this from happening? |
Happens to me ALL the time. When I touch the car, frig, microwave, THE WALL! And there's always a short flash of light, its like I'm a human battery or something. :eek: |
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| xKaoSx |
Effect seems to intensify if you have an amp installed and grounded in your car.
Also there are like 2 known cases of people blowing up gas stations because of that one little shock. They have it on video.
They even put warning stickers up at gas stations now about it. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by xKaoSx
Effect seems to intensify if you have an amp installed and grounded in your car.
Also there are like 2 known cases of people blowing up gas stations because of that one little shock. They have it on video.
They even put warning stickers up at gas stations now about it. |
That sounds HIGHLY improbable, considering that the actual amount of energy released by that kind of shock would be nowhere near enough to combust enough fuel to blow up an entire gas station.
Are you maybe talking about the alleged "cell phone explosion" incidents, which some gas stations were actually ignorant enough to put up warning signs about? Because that was just another e-mail hoax that was totally debunked. I think Snopes did a number on it - they contacted the newspapers/stations that supposedly reported on this issue and found out that none of them had any record of any such report.
But you might be referring to something totally different, guess I'd have to see. I'd have to assume that the engineers who designed the gas pump would have accounted for the possibility of static discharge and included the appropriate static shielding on the pumps. |
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| DigiNut |
Fair enough. I know there have been many reported cases of refuelling fires, although I've never heard of any literally blowing up a gas station. There is also a lot of garbage that flies around on this subject:
http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/static.asp
So you're right, refuelling fires do occur and it is a serious issue, it just bears mentioning that static electricity is only thought to be one probable cause, so those warnings are really just precautions.
I tend to be a little skeptical about this stuff because I've received junk like that article on snopes, but as long as you're not telling us to shut off our cell phones, you seem to be on the mark, and I stand corrected. :)
Mind you, I've never personally even had the temptation to get back into my car while I was refuelling... I'm not quite sure why anybody would do this, it just seems like a bad idea even without the fire warnings (what if the automatic shutoff doesn't work and the gasoline spills? I've actually had that happen, it was a good thing I was actually standing there to shut it off myself). |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
Mind you, I've never personally even had the temptation to get back into my car while I was refuelling... I'm not quite sure why anybody would do this, it just seems like a bad idea even without the fire warnings (what if the automatic shutoff doesn't work and the gasoline spills? I've actually had that happen, it was a good thing I was actually standing there to shut it off myself). |
doesn't the temperature drop to zero there and the wind kicks up to 30 mph..er kph? I remember when I lived in a not so warm land and hated standing outside while mother nature froze me bits off.
thats the only temptation i have of sitting in my car.....plus I think it is illegal to do, I saw one attendant shut off this girls pump for it, kinda funny. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
doesn't the temperature drop to zero there and the wind kicks up to 30 mph..er kph? I remember when I lived in a not so warm land and hated standing outside while mother nature froze me bits off.
thats the only temptation i have of sitting in my car.....plus I think it is illegal to do, I saw one attendant shut off this girls pump for it, kinda funny. |
I've had to refuel my tank at -30° before. Still didn't have that temptation.
Then again, I was driving back to Kingston at 5 am after a long night of clubbing, so I think I was happy that the freezing weather was keeping me awake for long enough to make the rest of the drive, heh. |
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| xKaoSx |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
Fair enough. I know there have been many reported cases of refuelling fires, although I've never heard of any literally blowing up a gas station. There is also a lot of garbage that flies around on this subject:
http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/static.asp
So you're right, refuelling fires do occur and it is a serious issue, it just bears mentioning that static electricity is only thought to be one probable cause, so those warnings are really just precautions.
I tend to be a little skeptical about this stuff because I've received junk like that article on snopes, but as long as you're not telling us to shut off our cell phones, you seem to be on the mark, and I stand corrected. :)
Mind you, I've never personally even had the temptation to get back into my car while I was refuelling... I'm not quite sure why anybody would do this, it just seems like a bad idea even without the fire warnings (what if the automatic shutoff doesn't work and the gasoline spills? I've actually had that happen, it was a good thing I was actually standing there to shut it off myself). |
Admittedly there were no "explosions" sorry- just people catching on fire. my bad.
Usually people get back into the car (at least me) to just sit down and listen to music. The problem is getting all the way in the car I think. I just hang out the side so I never build up a charge again.
And you're skeptical about everything. :D |
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