Live equipment chassis


A mate of mine is reporting that he gets a small electrical shock when he touches the chassis of his audio equipment.

While i'm aware of several instances that can give rise to this happening does anyone here have (or point me towards) a simple methodical guide for him to follow to find the cause? Thanks.
kiwi_1282001

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Thanks Jea48 & Hevac1,

The poor chap was getting electric shocks from touching the chassis of any of his audio kit (not static charge). All product used 3 wire cord and plugs.

I initially suspected that the cause would be at the outlet but a check found the earth in place and the phase and neutral correctly wired all the way back to the switchboard panel.

It then came down to talking the guy through the laborous task of finding where circuit was being broken.

It turned out that a new (expensive) power cable was at fault (live was not conductive from his MM reading).

So everyone might like to know that the Squirrel lived.

Lucky squirrel.