On 9/24/2020 4:21 PM, David Haines wrote: > One of my engineer sons sent me the following link about Furniture ESD. > Is it for real? Is this something else we have to worry about while > using our new K4's?
The document said in part "The only clue to the problem was that the malfunction seemed to be related to a person rising from a chair...." Tell me something that I don't know. In the 1950s (when I was first licensed) my parents' dinette set was of the then-popular chrome-and-vinyl construction, and every time I got up from the chair I would get zapped in the back of my knees. Static electricity generated by cloth sliding on the plastic. I cured the problem by touching a table fork or spoon to the metal chair rung to discharge the spark. I was under the impression that this was cured by switching to an anti-static type of plastic or fabric some time ago. It's "great" that all that time and brain power was spent on rediscovering the wheel. Are chrome-and-vinyl dinette sets still being sold? 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
