Mild Electric Shock When Touching Shunyata Alpha NR Plugs

I got a mild electric shock from a Shunyata Alpha-X NR plug when I accidentally touched it with my fingers after it’s unplugged from the outlet.

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I assume the IEC end of the power cord was plugged into a piece of equipment.

Was the electrical shock possibly a static electricity shock to the ground pin on the plug? 

Electrical power shock? From what to what? From the ground pin to ??? You need a circuit through at least two points through your body to receive and electrical power shock. What was some other part of your body touching at the same time?

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I got a more severe shock when I looked them up on Google. 

Someone will correct me on this but your amplifier stores electricity, often quite a bit, in its power supply capacitors.  So the Amp, not the wall supply,  has probably shocked you.

@jea48 @coppy777  the entire power cord including the IEC was disconnected from the amp. I got a mild shock when touching the pins. The shock was still there even though the whole power cord was disconnected from the system after 1 minute. I tried touching the pins after 10 minutes and there’s no more shock. Weird. 

 

If you were to contact Shunyata I'm sure they would have an answer for you. Please post your findings.