ouch 60v between LED trim ring and 6in can ????

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I was recently installing satco 6in LED gimbal eyeball trims... Got zapped whilst touching the existing old style can light and the metal gimbal on the trim unit..... got my fluke meter and read 60v between the two ??? ..... Checked the other 5 trim units and read anywhere between 20v and 30v between trims and cans... Is this normal leakage current ????

Double checked by screwing the trim unit into a stand-alone lamp .... results were the same ... 60v from metal gimbal ring to ground???

If I had install the units unenergized, they would have lit up just fine no sparks or shorts ( I wonder have m any have been installed and never checked?).

Most retrofit rings are plastic and isolate LED from grounding to the cans and would not present and issue.

Is this an odd situation or common ????
 
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I was recently installing satco 6in LED gimbal eyeball trims... Got zapped whilst touching the existing old style can light and the metal gimbal on the trim unit..... got my fluke meter and read 60v between the two ??? ..... Checked the other 5 trim units and read anywhere between 20v and 30v between trims and cans... Is this normal leakage current ????

Double checked by screwing the trim unit into a stand-alone lamp .... results were the same ... 60v from metal gimbal ring to ground???

If I had install the units unenergized, they would have lit up just fine no sparks or shorts ( I wonder have m any have been installed and never checked?).

Most retrofit rings are plastic and isolate LED from grounding to the cans and would not present and issue.

Is this an odd situation or common ????
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It's not a bug, it's a feature. It encourages you not to work live. :ROFLMAO:
 
I'm not sure of the voltage because I didn't put a meter on it, but I've had a couple of different brands knock my socks off after I screw the adapter into the socket and the lamp came on. Then I would be holding it and touch the can

Wowza.

On one brand, it was a very serious design flaw. With the driver mounted on the back side, it was pinching the red wire coming out because there were simply holes punched through the aluminum in order to snap the LED module in. Those holes were Jagged and one of them was right where the wires came out of the driver
 
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