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RE: "Ground Switch"


Today we call that a death cap.

That's an appropriate name for it.... Death Cap.

In the case where the cap was fed hot the chassis of the amp would be hot as well as the signal ground. That in turn would make the Electric Guitar pickup hot. Correct? All is well if the player is isolated/insulated from touching a grounded object. Kind of like holding onto a HOT bare 120V wire. Or as you said come into contact with another instrument or person playing a Guitar that is grounded. Or, how about this, if the other instrument uses the same old cap technology and is fed from an opposite AC Line, leg, and then it could be possible between the two of you there could be a 240V volt potential.

I was doing some research on the subject I found this site below.




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