Re: O/T Shocking Chevy post - Thanks!

Posted by landlord7012 on December 29, 2006 at 16:58:28 from (206.40.110.229):

In Reply to: Re: O/T Shocking Chevy post - Thanks! posted by Bob on December 29, 2006 at 16:11:54:

Taken from : http://www.electricitycentral.com/articles/staticsparks.htm
[However, nothing happens as long as you remain seated. Just keep yourself in one place and you won't get zapped.. As long as the surfaces remain near each other, the positives and negatives cancel out, and no overall "electricity" appears and no sparks are possible. But when you open the car door and step outside, you take just one polarity of charge along with you, while the car seat has the opposite polarity. At the same time, the charged-up car seat causes the whole car to become charged (by a process called "Faraday's Icepail Effect.") As you step out of the car, the voltage between your body and the car becomes huge, up to 10,000 or even 20,000 volts. Your shoes are probably insulating, so the charge has no opportunity to leak into the earth. You reach out to close the car door and ZAP!, the opposite polarities rejoin by leaping through the air while giving you a tiny, deep burn on your fingertip!]

Problem is my entire interior is plastic and rubber so I'm half way out ofthe truck before I can grab the metal part of the door. I have stainless nerf bars on it so sometimes I get it in the back of the legs too. A few people in the original post do it and say the wire or chain works. It stands to reason if the wire bridges that gap between the vehicle and the ground (earth) then I don't have to be the one to do it. If it doesn't work I'll have to drive around naked!

Thanks,
Bill

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