Jeremy Heckt's Blog

Post - When In Doubt Check The Outlets

Just a quick anecdote I figured I would share with the world just in case someone else has this similar issue.

I have a 3D printer, a Bambu A1 Mini. For the first 6+ months I had the thing my fingers would catch a bit of a tingle whenever I would touch between the print plates or the exposed metal of the rails. I thought this may have been an issue with my printer, but I only found one other person online mentioning it on Reddit. That one post had one comment suggesting to check the ground of the outlets it is connected to.

So I had an electrician take a look, and it turns out the ground wasn't even connected to the outlets in my garage workbench! Wild. Fixing that fixed my electrical shock issue from my printer. It also fixed a minor, but repeatable, blemish that would happen on my calibration cube prints.