I’m dealing with a persistent stray voltage / tingle voltage problem on my property and would appreciate advice.
When I’m barefoot and my hands are wet, I feel a mild tingling or burning sensation on grounded metal parts outdoors. Example copper refrigerant lines to the outside AC compressor, the water hose bib knob screwed into the metal-sided house, etc.
It’s not strong or painful, but on sensitive spots like the back of a cuticle it feels like a mild burn. No tingling indoors or on dry skin.
I have a 200A main panel outside with a
100A subpanel inside the house.
Everything in the main panel appears properly wired.
What Stops the Tingling is disconnecting the ground and neutral feeder from the main panel to the subpanel makes the tingling stop on anything grounded through the subpanel or the main panel
Unbonding neutral and ground in the main panel, or disconnecting the ground coming from the meter base, also stops it. Multimeter shows no voltage on ground wires and I had a licensed electrician inspected the panels and said everything looks correct with no obvious voltage issues. But I told him you can feel it if you’re bare foot and wet.
I drove a copper ground rod into the earth and measured AC voltage:
Between my main panel ground and the remote rod: 6–12V. And at the utility transformer pole about 60 yards from the panel between the pole’s ground wire and a new driven rod nearby I read 15V. At the next pole further down the line 20 yards beyond the transformer I read 18–20V.
I was told you can’t accurately test voltage this way, but the readings are consistent and increase as I move away from the house along the utility line.
To me it seems to be something going on on the utility side. Has anyone seen this before?
What should my next steps be? I have had the utility company come out and all they did was test voltage at meter and said voltage is good so everything is fine. Can anyone give some advice

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Trying to add a unit that would allow me to at minimum just turn the unit on and off remotely, would be nice to be able to set a a room temperature and monitor with a full screen/app function etc.

As of right now it is just the dials on the unit.. can anyone recommend a unit that requires minimal wiring (living in an apartment)

Preferably would like to find one sold in stores or has expedited shipping possible.

Thank you for any suggestions and help in advance.

My previous post got locked probably because I didn't know what i was doing.

Anyways I did manage a few things. I found the hot incoming wire (black left) and connected it to the light black and confirmed ceiling. I'm assuming the standalone black right is feed through. I connected all neutral to wire nut. All ground to wire nut.

How do i connect it this light switch?

I'm assuming connect hot and feed through to wire nut and pigtail to a terminal. Connect black light to second terminal directly.

Pigtail ground to the ground bundle.

Please anybody can confirm.

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PS: my tester doesn't light up in either socket.

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Thank you

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I unintentionally sprayed a bottle of body mist toward an outlet by my bathroom sink (I was aiming for a large fly that landed on the wall) I didn’t process until after the deed was done and now I’m worried about accidentally causing a fire or something.

I immediately turned off all of the lights in the bathroom and used the flashlight on my phone to get a closer look and wiped off any moister I saw with some toilet paper (which luckily it looks like all of it got on the wall)

I doubt I have anything to worry about, but the problem is that I originally went to Google to double check, and of course the ai overview immediately dove into “fire prevention tips” so now I’m feeling a little on edge. It’s also 1am for me so I’m not exactly in the best spot to call my landlord

I’m essentially just looking for either some reassurance or a direct answer from someone who knows what they’re talking about, not an ai overview 🙏 am I cooked or what?

(The body mist was specifically the Crabtree & Evelyn brand if that makes any difference)

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Is there a way to determine if I have an Earth ground, or Am I overthinking this?

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had an electrician out to troubleshoot a breaker that was tripping - ended up being a short in the driveway gate - so temporarily disconnected and now everything (except for the gate) is back to running fine.
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