The problem comes primarily from the rubber/leather soles of your shoes,
which keep you from dissipating charge back to ground. During humid days,
the water & other particulates in the air act as a good enough conductor to
discharge you continuously.
I would imagine that, in most cases, the discharges won't hurt any
equipment, as long as it only hits the case. I have had problems when
getting shocked while holding magnetic media, however - the EMP is strong
enough in a localized area to scramble the bits on my floppy/zip drive
disks...
If you want to be really sure that no equipment is damaged, you can go an
extra step & install grounding cable to the equipment back to a grounding
bus (althoug, if their PS's are wired correctly, they should already be
wired back like this.
I personally find the problem to be worst with my chair - it seems to
generate a gob of static. I'm considering attaching a ground strap to the
chair itself (I move around a lot, but the chair doesn't).
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: OT: controlling static build-up
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> Hey all,
>
> In a way this IS on topic, because I'm trying to keep from frying my
> Redhat servers. I work in New England where our long winter is coming on,
> and the room I work in (now filled with servers) is generating more static
> electricity than I've ever seen before. I discharge electricity just about
> every time I touch something metal, including the computer equipment.
>
> What do the guru's here do to cope with static electricity? I move around
> too much in my work to constantly wear a grounding wrist strap <grin> but
> short of the anti-static chair mat (which should arrive today), is there
> anything I can wear or do to combat this problem?
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me,
> -burk
>
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