Very strange problem with electrification. I'm begging you for help.

Hello everyone. I may have a funny problem for you, but it is terribly bothersome. This is perhaps more explainable to physicists, but I couldn't find any noteworthy physics forum, So I immediately thought of a helpful electrode (rather you, electrode users). I will move on to the topic. Let me start with the fact that I live in an 11-story building which may explain a few things. For a month or so, something has been electrifying, as soon as I touch the door handle or something metal, it kicks me (it even happened once that a glass lampshade or even a curtain kicked me). Somehow, not long before the electrification began, the neighbors in my riser were doing a renovation and they were probably messing with the radiator from the central heating (it was audible as if they were grinding the radiator with a grinder and banging on the CO pipes) I thought maybe some mass (or grounding I do not know) on this) they connected to the radiator and I have scratched bare metal in several places, maybe this is the reason, but I do not know how to check it, I have a broken contact next to the radiator (so that it is without a housing and the plates in which the plug is inserted stick out) which is already this has been the case for over 6 months. Matula tells me that from sitting at the computer she actually sits a lot in front of the computer for several hours (5 sometimes even 12) but she works on the computer and I have been sitting with it for several years. I note that my mother does not copy or other household members because only I spend a lot of time in the room, others max 2-3 hours. I am begging you, help me, what can this be happening? It may be funny for you, but it is very troublesome and sometimes painful until your fingers go numb.

I have such days depending on:
1.What I am going to wear, I noticed that in some places (e.g. artificial carpet at work) some of my sweaters or sweatshirts are terribly electrifying.
2. from what and when the cleaning lady at my place cleans the floor from the panels, then the entire floor complains that everything is "kicked" by them.

I also have floor panels. But my friend, only me and my girlfriend who stays in my room a lot, other household members and my friends who come to visit me do not have this problem with me. I would like to emphasize that since it started there is not even a 1 day break.

Think about when it started and think if and what changed then. If it is a neighbors renovation, measure the voltage on the radiator (against the ground in the socket or against the N wire).

You are not alone!!!

I live in a single-family building, where in the bathroom, after heating the water in the boiler, taps from the water "kick": / (I do not know if this is caused by this)
My parents, however, don't share my opinion, so I found nothing to do with it ... it doesn't bother me that much.
Directly through the skin there is a slight tingling sensation, but when you touch it with some scratch, breach of the epidermis ... it is painful.

If I come up with something ... try to help!

maybe the humidifier will do the trick, sure our air is too dry.

You are like a capacitor, the more you isolate yourself, the more you get charged and then you shoot sparks, unfortunately, but everything that surrounds you can affect you - dry air, new slippers, a faux wool sweater or a TV set on. It only remains to ground.
Kucek93; The taps in the bathroom can kick (once), but they should not tingle something you have wrong with the installation

Hello, there are special rinsing liquids for fabrics that eliminate static electricity, maybe try it.

Hello
The air in your apartment is too dry. Recently, we have quite significant negative temperatures and reduced air humidity in Poland, and this is probably the cause of your troubles. Antistatic fluids will partially do the trick, but spring will do better. Put a wet towel on the radiator, it should solve the problem

First of all, do something with this contact because you will dream at night and this is worse than digging

Hello. Maybe I will write something too. I met the antistatic liquid in the atomiser, maybe it will help something - until spring. I had such a problem with the car and I messed up the interior and the problem was gone. Maybe it will also work in the apartment. Best regards.

I know, I have dug up the old cutlet, but I have a new installation in a newly built house, I am an electrician myself, I put the installation myself, so everything is fine. I changed my slippers, I try to dress non-synthetically and nothing. Whenever I turn on the RTV equipment, a tiny screwdriver is lying on the table, which is used to discharge me. Only then do I turn on all the equipment. What can I do with it? I go to the RTV equipment and it hits like hell. but, oddly enough, only from late fall to spring. it is quiet in summer. And it only pounds me, not other household members.

So when the heating in the house is working and the humidity is lower, there may be some kind of clothing (fleece or other sweater) and perhaps a different skin resistance.
This is how it occurs to my mind that someone with wet skin will release static charges more easily even with reduced air humidity, and someone with dry skin may feel the discomfort of small shocks.

ronczka18 wrote:

But my friend, only me and my girlfriend who stays in my room a lot, other household members and my friends who come to visit me do not have this problem with me.

A simple test - look at what you and the Girl are wearing and what other household members and colleagues are wearing. To be sure, walk around the apartment for a few days in pure cotton. If he stops digging - change the outfit to a less electrifying one.

"... I'm an electrician myself ..."
"Well, it only hits me, not other household members."

And supposedly "electrician, electricity is not ticking"?

It so happens that some people have drier skin than others. He will stick such a hand into the live circuit and tickle him, and he would shock another. On the other hand, static charges do not spread over it and it sprinkles sparks.

If there are carpets in the room, I would try to treat them with an antistatic liquid.

Wash your cocolino panties and stop electrocuting. I wash my dresses like that. However, I am surprised at what they teach in schools now, there is nothing about static electricity?

nawracająca zgaga wrote:

Wash your cocolino panties and stop electrocuting. I wash my dresses like that. However, I am surprised at what they teach in schools now, there is nothing about static electricity?

In my time, the physics lady explained it to us visually. She set the electrostatic machine on the desk, hooked it up to a Leyden bottle, and had the whole class grab their hands. And then she spun the machine and told the two "extreme" - "touch these two balls." A second later, the entire class knew what static electricity was.

Your colleagues have already written a lot of advice on the causes and possible preventive measures.
However, I was interested in the genesis of this phenomenon:

ronczka18 wrote:

Somehow, not long before the electrification began, the neighbors in my riser were doing a renovation and they were probably messing with the radiator from the central heating (it was audible as if they were grinding the radiator with a grinder and banging on the CO pipes) I thought maybe some mass (or grounding I do not know) on this) they connected to the radiator and I have scratched bare metal in several places, maybe this is the reason, but I do not know how to check it, I have a broken contact next to the radiator (so that it is without a housing and the plates in which the plug is inserted stick out) which is already this has been the case for over 6 months.

In my opinion, this was not the case before, because the central heating installation in the block played the role of grounding and prevented the accumulation of charges. Today there is a tendency to replace metal pipes, e.g. in CO - plastic ones and they no longer provide effective grounding. Probably during the renovation, where possible, the pipes were replaced with plastic ones.

I have the same problem ... I'm an electronics engineer, so I can explain some phenomena to myself.
The previous speakers claiming that the central heating or water installation is the responsible mistake.
These installations, if they are metal, have a keyed connection in the building, so they are at the ground potential. In addition, these installations would not be selectively irritating, all household members would have a problem, and in the described cases this is usually not the case.
The reason for the flashover is the person who electrifies himself and is at a higher potential in relation to the potential of the earth.
The electrification is favored by clothes made of fleece and wool, synthetic blankets, dry air and dry human skin.
To reduce electrostatics, avoid certain materials, moisten the air in the apartment (CO dries it up a lot), lubricate the whole body with moisturizing ointments, drink plenty of fluids.
A separate problem may be the electrostatics of the car, because it, depending on the conditions, may be at a potential lower or higher than ours, e.g. after driving in dry air, it may have a potential higher than ours. To discharge electrostatic charges from the car body, special electrically conductive strips are used, which are mounted so that they are in contact with the ground. Such a strip carries the charges that accumulate on the car body to the ground.

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