I wear cotton clothes in the winter (when static is highest & air driest).
For the assembly of the K3, I merely tied the anti-static mat to a metal ground in the radio and wore a wrist strap attached to the mat. If I had to leave the bench, I always put on the strap before touching the radio or any components being installed. If there were anything to be soldered I would ground my solder station to the mat with a simple clip lead. Yes, to be totally safe from discharge a clip lead to the house safety ground would be best. For some test equipment, isolation transformers should be used because they ground circuits that you may not want grounded. If you have not encountered this, then ignore this comment. (I had my scope, signal gen, multi-voltage PS and Sinader all isolated. Then the scope probe would not accidently ground out a circuit. I have been handling static sensitive components at work for years and only used a 3-M anti static mat, anti-static solder station, and anti-static hand tools except the forceps were ordinary. Only had a couple devices DOA (which could have happened before I got them). 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45 ====================================== BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com 500-KHz/CW, 144-MHz EME, 1296-MHz EME DUBUS Magazine USA Rep [email protected] ====================================== ______________________________________________________________ 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
