[Rhodes22-list] Roger, I need your input...

[ed kroposki]

Carol,
	Where in Colorado are you?  Anywhere near Arvada?  If so, I may be
able get you some high powered electrical engineering help.  Unfortunately,
he has only been on an R22 one time. But then he knows what it is and what
it looks like.
	Too bad Rummy was on the list instead of on the lake, temps in low
80's with a fresh breeze.  No thunderstorms!

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA


  

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Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 5:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Roger, I need your input...

Roger,
 
Thanks for explaining the static theory everyone else is mentioning...I was

getting confused (which is easy to do for me). I find it interesting that
Alex 
 had this problem in CO. Thanks for letting me know that Rummy (and welcome

back!) I've had this Rhodes out here since 1999 (when I bought it), and this

is  the first season I've ever had the shocking problem. That is why I'm
also  
somewhat suspicious of something in the mast. It was last fall that I broke 
the  connections.
 
When the outboard shocked me, it was in the water. If static had built up
in 
me, once I the shock happened, it would be over, right? I don't think I
would 
 continually build up a charge again. It would shock me every time I touched

the  stern rail with my hand, and I wasn't moving around. It felt like a
live 
shock  (like touching an electric fence). I had no other symptoms like 
tingling or hair  standing up. 
 
The second time, there were five of us on the boat, and there was some  
static in the air and some hair was standing up which was why I was trying
to  get 
to shore as quickly as possible. That's when the stays started clicking, and

that's the most nervous I've felt being exposed on the water.
 
I think a storm in the nearby area is feeding the problem but I'd be
awfully 
surprised to think it was causing it because this is the only season  it's 
happened. We have storms here all the time in the summer afternoons.
 
For those who suggest I avoid these storms, that is a great idea in theory,

but in CO, there is almost always a storm in the area in the afternoons and 
you  just have to keep an eye on how close they are to you, and what
direction 
they  are going. You can be in a downpour and lightning storm one minute,
and 
drive  ten minutes north and be in sunny blue skies.
 
I'm hoping to go out tomorrow but may not be able to sail again until
Sunday.
 
Carol
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