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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!psuvax1!psuvm!qxf1
- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 12:16:16 EST
- From: <QXF1@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92357.121616QXF1@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Help!Static Charge Shock--Civic
- Distribution: rec
- References: <1992Dec17.170454.16567@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec17.170454.16567@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>,
- derx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu says:
- >
- >Hi, netters. Happy holidays!!
- >My wife has a Honda Civic 89'. The car seems to accumulate static charge in
- >the body in running or parked. So each time you touch the body or use key to
- >open the doors, you get shocked. Though it does not knock you off, it is
- >quite unpleasant experience. :-( Is it because of the battery is leaking
- >some current somewhere or a "designed feature" of Civic? All advice wanted.
- >
- >By the way, I want to thank you who responded to "damp starting problem" of
- >my 82' Toyota. I fixed it by cleaning wires with lacquer thinner ($4). Thank
- >you all, especially the one who advised lacquer thinner.
- >
- >Linming Shen
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- I believe that I have read something in a scientific magazine about this thing.
- According to that article, during driving or with the wind blown on the car,
- dusts in the air will generate static charge through firction (specially when
- air is dry). The voltage is normally up to thousands of volts. But because of
- the very small electric amount, this charge will do nothing more than a
- annoying discharge. The reason that not everybody feel the shock is because
- most tires are good enough conductors under high voltage and the charge are
- drained to the ground. But if you are out of luck and all of your four tires
- are good resistor up to a very high voltage, charge may built up and you'll be
- shocked from time. Actually in my country (P.R.China), many buses has a chain
- beneath the door. Each time when the door opens, that chain drop to the ground
- simultaneously making sure everything is discharged. On those without this
- thing, sometimes, not always, the first passenger will take the place of that
- chain and discharge for everyone behind when his/her foot touch the ground.
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- Opps, a little spark.
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- Ching
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