Anyone get shocked

Mark 8262

Residential and Commercial Pressure Washing Specia
Has anyone ever gotten a little shock from their wand or hose. My pressure washers are 12 volt.
A couple of months ago while washing a house I kept get a little shock every time I touched my wand.
Today when I climbed the steps of a deck to wash the back of a house I got shocked again.
When I climbed down I no longer got shocked. It was a pretty good shock every time I touched the wand or hose.
Has this ever happened to anyone else and what is causing this.
 
The house or building is not well grounded. This happened at the house I grew up in. We had to get a new electrical service because we were putting AC on it, and the electrician found that the house was not properly grounded, so that every time someone touched it it would give them a little buzz. (My memory is rusty on this. I was like 10 and it was 40 years ago). Ended up finding that the power pole behind our house was grounding itself on a guy wire, which was too close to our cyclone fence, and it was attacked to our house. Wierd little thing, and it may not have been a house grounding issue, now that I look at it. The power pole was grounding itself out.
 
The house or building is not well grounded. This happened at the house I grew up in. We had to get a new electrical service because we were putting AC on it, and the electrician found that the house was not properly grounded, so that every time someone touched it it would give them a little buzz. (My memory is rusty on this. I was like 10 and it was 140 years ago). Ended up finding that the power pole behind our house was grounding itself on a guy wire, which was too close to our cyclone fence, and it was attacked to our house. Wierd little thing, and it may not have been a house grounding issue, now that I look at it. The power pole was grounding itself out.

I fixed your post, Scott.
 
is it possible that the ground on your plug is breaking? when that happens to me while carpet cleaning the first thing i do is check my plug. i usually repair the plug end, so im able to disassemble it and check things out.

im not positive but i think that if you just replace the plug though, it loses its ul rating. so i guess that would be an osha problem. i think to do it properly, you have to replace the entire wire all of the way back to your equipment. please take note that i keep using the term think and guess. thats because i'm not sure. someone told me that a few years ago and i cant vouch for my memory or the person that i was speaking with.
 
Most commercial and industrial pressure washing contractors do not use electric machines, on a continuing basis. Our machines are typically Gas machines with Diesel heaters. So, as interesting as your hypothesis is, I am pretty sure that it is not a ground in the plug. It could be another ground on the machine, though.
 
We used to get the same with a Honda we had with no boiler on it. re wired the starter switch back to factory and not a problem anymore
 
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