Yeow! Stray voltage??

[Delphinus]

You should be able to pick up a rudimentary voltmeter for $5-$10 thereabouts at Home Depot, Revy, Radio Shack ... etc. You can spend a whole lot more if you want to, of course, but these cheapy ones should suffice for a water test.

One more thing to add to what DJ88 mentioned: test for AC. That's probably a pretty bluntly obvious thing to point out, but then again, maybe it's not so obvious all the time ... ;)

PS. I have been fooled so many times by the "cut on my finger" thing. I'll stick my hand in the water for whatever reason, and I'll swear I feel a current because it's a really fast kind of "zap!zap!zap!zap!zap!zap!" sensation, but then I go test, and find nothing, AC or DC (probably not needed to test DC, since there are no DC devices in there, but what the heck.)

[ 27 May 2002, 07:10: Message edited by: delphinus ]