Re: My Les Paul is noisy! Video!
And i dont care how many posts you have. Its not going to ground through your body at all when you touch the strings unless the bridge ground is connected.
It has nothing to do with number of posts, it has to do with electrical IQ.
If the bridge is already connected to ground, then touching the strings will not ground it further and there will be no change...no hum when properly grounded, therefore further grounding (through the body) will not make a difference.
Yes, the body does, ...let me say that again... the body
does ground a circuit.
It's ridiculous to even argue this point. You can say that 2 + 2 = 3 all you want, but it doesn't change the facts.
Let's first get something out in the clear...I'd like to know, where are you getting the idea that the body
doesn't ground a circuit? Have you got a reference that we can review? Did you read it on the internet? Did a friend tell you that? Are you just assuming that? What? Where did you come up with this idea?
"Shock current path
As we've already learned, electricity requires a complete path (circuit) to continuously flow. This is why the shock received from static electricity is only a momentary jolt: the flow of electrons is necessarily brief when static charges are equalized between two objects. Shocks of self-limited duration like this are rarely hazardous.
Without two contact points on the body for current to enter and exit, respectively, there is no hazard of shock. This is why birds can safely rest on high-voltage power lines without getting shocked: they make contact with the circuit at only one point.
In order for electrons to flow through a conductor, there must be a voltage present to motivate them. Voltage, as you should recall, is always relative between two points. There is no such thing as voltage "on" or "at" a single point in the circuit, and so the bird contacting a single point in the above circuit has no voltage applied across its body to establish a current through it. Yes, even though they rest on two feet, both feet are touching the same wire, making them electrically common. Electrically speaking, both of the bird's feet touch the same point, hence there is no voltage between them to motivate current through the bird's body.
This might lend one to believe that its impossible to be shocked by electricity by only touching a single wire. Like the birds, if we're sure to touch only one wire at a time, we'll be safe, right? Unfortunately, this is not correct. Unlike birds, people are usually standing on the ground when they contact a "live" wire. Many times, one side of a power system will be intentionally connected to earth ground, and so the person touching a single wire is actually making contact between two points in the circuit (the wire and earth ground): "
For this kind of crap, I'll live with a 0.4-ohm offset for two days.
