2eleven;263827 Wrote: > The ESD training at my company makes it seem like doomsday if > electronics are subjected to sparks... > > Thanks, > > John
Hello John, ESD is mainly a concern of ICs/circuit boards that are uninstalled or being handled. Most ICs once installed in equipment only need to worry about a nuclear blast (EMP) or lightening. My Media Room is in the basement which is carpeted. We have a whole house dehumidifier that never lets the humidity get above 35%. With the heat running in the winter, humidity gets well below 20% (lots of static) so anybody walking in the basement is in for a shock when touching any light switch or home electronics. I installed an ESD Static Strap plug-in (I am an RF Engineer, so I had one laying about) beside my In-Wall equipment shelves. I touch the female banana inlet to discharge the built up static before touching any of my equipment. This is not really to safeguard the equipment but more of a time saver for me. The main thing that happens if I touch equipment first is that my HT Processor will turn on or any equipment with a clock or memory setting resets to zero or their default. Then I have to reset the time and reprogram my components. The equipment in the living room is on a metal Stand Design equipment rack. I have grounded the rack, so I touch it first. Again this is only a time saver. As long as your equipment is not open so that you could touch ICs directly, finished consumer equipment is fairly immune to personal static discharge. You could touch a wall switch or outlet screw below touching your gear. The easiest thing to do is touch your amp first because most amps have a 3 prong plug on them. ZAP!, youre discharged with no Transporter issues. -- iPhone iPhone Last.FM http://www.lastfm.com/user/mePhone Media Room: Transporter, Vandersteen Quatro Signature, Ayre MX-R Mono Blocks, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, VCC-5 Reference Center Channel, four VSM-1 Signatures, Runco 710, RAM Oppo DV970HD, VeraStarr 6.4SE Living Room: Squeezebox 3, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold Bedroom: Squeezebox 3, Thiel 2.3, NAD C370 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42869
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