On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 01:08:46PM -0700, jh wrote: > Hi. Does anyone know how or have a link to building your own grounding > device that could attach to your wrist for hardware upgrades? I live in a > very small town with no way to get one quickly. I know there are places > online that sell them. Hoping to make something that would do the same job. > I am in the process of upgrading my motherboard and don't want to take any > chances. Thank you. -Jeff H >
Little ditty from - http://windowsitlibrary.com/Content/175/04/2.html Don't really know much about the source. ESD wrist strap, which has a resistor inside the strap and a lead wire that can be connected to a metal surface as a ground. The grounding wire on the wrist strap should have between 1 and 10 Megaohms of resistance. The resistor should protect you in case you come in contact with a voltage source. If the resistor is bad or not included, the wrist strap is useless - an accidental shock could be serious and even deadly. also - Novell, Inc., a network operating system manufacturer, says of ESD that "about 90 percent of the time, ESD events cause the component to degrade, but not fail testing procedures, resulting in failure at a later date. Because components do not fail immediately, technicians often underestimate the cost of not using ESD prevention measures." Anyway, touch the metal on your case before picking up a component. Try your best to only touch the sides of the component. Higher humidity is better than lower humidity. kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
