Thane,
First off I am surprised that the 'front grill' is even metal. That said,
I would presume that, if metal, and, that there is a contiguous connection,
that it should connect to the LOW side of any power (source)
connection. Like DC(-) or AC(neu).
I do not have a lot of laptop experience. How does direct wall AC interface
with a laptop? I should think a wall-wort, or, some 2-pin homogenized
interface (uh-oh!)
Again, you have a really good one!
Best,
Duncan
At 15:02 02/11/2008 -0400, you wrote:
About three weeks ago, I had 17" HP Pavilion laptop in that had some of
the paint scraped off the front grill that runs along the entire front of
the laptop. If you touched the bare metal, you would get a shock, so I
used a multimeter to check it, and there was 10 to 40V running through the
grill. On a whim, I checked the continuity between the power plug and the
front grill, and there was continuity I assumed that this must mean a
short somewhere in the case, and since the hard drive was dead as well and
the system under warranty, the customer took the machine back to ship to HP.
Today I got another HP Pavilion laptop, and it also has continuity between
the power jack and the metal grill in the front. Isn't this a problem or
am I misreading this?
T