Why does water coming from a tap cause electric shock and how to find a breakdown?

Question

I`m looking for an energy specialist who knows what he`s talking about. When I turn on the tap, water comes out and gives me an electric shock. What to do? How do I find where it pierces?

stanislaw1954 · Answer

How do you heat the water?

Anonymous · Answer

When you touch the tap, it doesn`t kick in, only water? Well, unless the tubes are plastic. I`m betting on a flow heater (maybe a boiler) and a leak, or rather connected without grounding.

pla20 · Answer

If the water comes from the heater (boiler), the most common cause is a puncture in the heater and a lack of connection of the protective conductor.

Loker · Answer

If it kicks only when the water is turned on, it is a stratified heater in the instantaneous heater.

robokop · Answer

And the water flows where - in the countryside, in the city, in a block of flats, in a single-family house? Water from a well, from a water supply, hot/cold? There are no clairvoyants here.

pla20 · Answer

If the installation is properly made and efficient, this should not happen. At most, the protection will work.

kkas12 · Answer

What is below this room?
Very often, the reason for this phenomenon is a potential different from the ground "located" on the floor.
The reason may be damaged wire insulation or the housing with phase potential on the housing.

Wawrzyniec · Answer

The author of the topic wrote one post in March and it was deleted, and you are still here today. He hasn`t spoken for 3 months and the water is offensive.

stanislaw1954 · Answer

Either she`s already dealt with the guy or she`s stopped digging.

Anonymous · Answer

Do not turn on the tap. In an emergency, pour water into a plastic cup. Seriously - a common cause is the reverse connection of the flow power supply. It has a heater on which we feed the phase in the middle of the heater and the neutral at the ends. Additionally, right behind the ends of the heater there are grids connected to ground. A few errors, such as missing RCD (which would normally trigger with such a connection), PE not connected or zeroed to the phase, LN swapped and we have the effects.

Jacdiag · Answer

Maybe before he read the advice he took a kick at St. Peter

elpapiotr · Answer

No, my jollyyy.
There are situations that my colleague kkas12 wrote about.

At this one:

the metal profile in the "attic" pressed against the frayed cable, while the above-mentioned profile was in contact with the water pipe.

At this one:

water was "kicking" on the floor below.
Of course, the upstairs neighbor didn`t know anything about it (she also started digging) until she turned on the ceiling light.
And so they played cat and mouse.

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