Electric shock through headphones

[newaximbloke]

I use Window Media Player a lot and recently it crackled unpleasantly and then (I think) gave me an electric shock in the ears. I use a 3400 longlife battery. I've talked to a couple of friends about this and they say this is unlikely to have occurred but it did.

Also, my X5 temporarily bombed out two weeks before and I lost everything on it (no massive problem because it was all restored at the next sync). I'm just wondering whether there's a recognisable problem here with the connections that people are aware of/have experienced before.

Typically, I bought the Dell about 13 months ago, so it's out of warranty!

(No so) New Axim Bloke

i've gotten an elextric shock through my axim-attached-heaphones a few times before, but the static was generated by another source.

it was physically irritating, but the axim kept playing music each time and nothing bad seems to have come of it.

[MrKlaatu]

Originally posted by newaximbloke
Electric shock through headphones

WHY do they tempt me so!!??!!??

Because someone has got to give you something to do ;)

[MrKlaatu]

Originally posted by Cheryl
Because someone has got to give you something to do.

You're a fine one to talk!!! ;)

[hyedipin]

most likely you discharged the electric build-up to the next available receiver, in this case it was the headphones. If it was kinda cold, and you were wearing something woolish, you probably just discharged it to headphone, if you had touched someone else or some place else, it would have crackled and jumped there..

There of course is some electic on your Dell. Especially dell products have this problem with electric discharges, time to time I have discharge from my dell laptop.