# Power armor not protecting from electrical discharges

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/power-armor-not-protecting-from-electrical-discharges/10026>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [July 10, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/power-armor-not-protecting-from-electrical-discharges/10026 "2015-07-10T15:39:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dlightfull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@Dlightfull](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Dlightfull)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/power-armor-not-protecting-from-electrical-discharges/10026/1 "2015-07-10T15:39:36Z")

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version 9335e21

A tank bot managed to taze me when wearing an activated power armor. I also got some arm damage while fighting a shocker (maybe shocker brute) while wearing a heavy power armor.

The electrical damage doesn’t work 100% of the time, but it still works sometimes, although, as i understand it, power armor should make me immune to electricity.

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**Author:** ![Azrad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Azrad](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Azrad)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/power-armor-not-protecting-from-electrical-discharges/10026/2 "2015-07-10T19:31:18Z")

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I vaguely recall something similar. Using the dielectric capacitance cbm, and I still get damaged by skitterbot tazers. Vaguely sure that it still protected me from other shocks like the ones that come from lab computers and hitting shockers with a metal weapon.

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 10:27am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/power-armor-not-protecting-from-electrical-discharges/10026/3 "2015-07-11T10:27:29Z")

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dRbig fixed it, thanks for reporting 🙂

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**Author:** ![Dlightfull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@Dlightfull](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Dlightfull)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2015, 11:40am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/power-armor-not-protecting-from-electrical-discharges/10026/4 "2015-07-11T11:40:28Z")

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> [@Kevin Granade](#):
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> dRbig fixed it, thanks for reporting 🙂

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Pleased to serve, Sir!!! 🙂