NO no no ... you don't want to connect yourself to ground. You want to connect yourself to whatever semi-conducting surface you are working on (the one that the K3 and it's components are resting on). Connecting yourself to ground merely increases the chance that there will be a potential between you and the rig.
I simply laid out a large enough amount of aluminum foil to hold everything, wrapped a bare wire around my arm just above my elbow, and used a clip lead to connect the bare wire to the aluminum foil. I know everyone recommends a large value resistor be placed in series with the bare wire for safety reasons, but I did all this on a large wooden table several feet away from anything else and skin resistance here in dry Arizona is fairly high anyway. Dave AB7E On 12/17/2010 2:34 AM, David Pratt wrote: > Wear cotton clothing rather than nylon or highly static material; avoid > walking around on static-prone carpets. Wrap a length of bare copper > wire around your wrist and solder a 2 megohm resistor to it. Connect > that to a nearby ground connection. Just ensure that the K3 is always > at the same potential as yourself by touching its frame regularly. > > You should be okay at that. > > 73 de David G4DMP > > In a recent message, Kjeld Holm<[email protected]> writes >> I am about to install my subreceiver and would like to finish before the >> weekend but I have no ESD work place. How can I best protect the parts? Or >> do I have to wait until I can get the needed ESD equipment? ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
