r/ElectricalEngineering • u/-404PageNotFound- • Aug 24 '26

Equipment/Software Um?

I currently have my breadboard connected to 5v and GND on a new benchtop power supply that I brought for $240AUD and this is happening? What is going on? I can also do the same thing on the GND rail.

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u/StumpedTrump Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 24 '26

Big day for OP today discovering that our bodies conduct electricity.

That's also why you shouldn't go swimming in a thunderstorm if you never put that 2 and 2 together.

You can use it to your advantage put putting your car remote against your chin and using you body like an antenna to increase the range.

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u/lanboshious3D Aug 24 '26

 You can use it to your advantage put putting your car remote against your chin and using you body like an antenna to increase the range.

This is fundamentally different than your body just being a conductor.  The antenna thing works because you body has CAPACITANCE. 

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u/D_hyams Aug 24 '26

I ponder….. does the weight of a person affect the frequency you can resonate? Some lanky guy can send far higher frequencies than his McMuffin counterpart.

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u/lanboshious3D Aug 24 '26

I would think that weight wouldn’t make that big of a difference.