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Freebooter · member Member # Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 417

Has anyone else noticed a strong electric current going trough your body when using a Intuous 2? My girlfriens just brushed my ear and got quite freaked out when there were sudden vibrations and almost a magnetic feel to my ear. I felt it, too. When I let go of the wacom it vanished and came back as soon as I touched it again. She put her hands on the Intuous and I felt the same vibrations on her skin, a very distinctive current. We tried the same thing with my old Wacom Graphire and we didn't feel anything odd. Neither with my mouse or my keyboard.

That really freaked me out and I wan't to know if anybody else had these same sensations. Try it out.

I won't be using my wacom untill I know it's safe..

Naeem · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:34 am

hmm...
that is pretty freaky. i have an intuos, and it has not happened to me...
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Freebooter · member Member # Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 417

You need someone else to touch you while your holding it to feel the current. But if you still don't then it's my Wacom and I'm not going to use it lest I want a bloody cancer. I'll try my Wacom tomorrow at school and see if it is my Intuous or just my computer (which I really doubt).

Gort · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 6:00 am

Dude, come down down off the acid trip and let us know if it's still happening.

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Max · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 7:11 am

Damn

I feel it too,......wait...no. lol. but there was a some weird vibration going on in my fingertips. delusion? Confused

neff · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:36 am

yeah, thats right. everytime i use my intuos3, my hands begin to glow and little butterflies coming right out of my tft. damn...
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Freebooter · member Member # Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 417

Gheheh yeah guys those sensations are now gone with all the pink rhinos.. But seriously I'm not being delusional. I think there is something broken in my wacom and the electricity is somehow leaking.. no, not like water. Mad

And it's not just me. I told my friend to pick it up without telling him first and when I touched him he we both felt it. And no, it wasn't a sexual sensation.
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balistic · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:10 am

That's definitely not normal. Are you wearing any metal rings or bracelets or anything? That's the only thing I can think of that might let you catch induced current from a tablet.
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B0b · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 1:42 pm

i used to wear a thumb ring when i was @ college and never had any feelings when i used my wacom..

Nilwort · member Member # Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Posts: 319

Maybe your tablet is trying to kill you.

Ragnarok · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:48 am

Probably it's just broken, take it to the shop =P
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sweetums · member Member # Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 236

And don't take a shower while using it.
It does sound like it has a short in it, and yes, you ARE feeling electric current, just millivolts, as the tablet doesn't need a full 110 to operate, that's why you don't have it plugged into the wall directly...

Stop using it until you get it repaired, though. You definitely are not doing your system hard drives any favors by having shorts pull on the power supply. It doesn't seem like one should affect the other, but trust me, they do.
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