Static electricity SOLVED p4
I have dry skin (have to wet my finger to activate touch screen) but my wife gets sparks (!) as well. The issue did not exist in CA, where we used to live in higher humidity area and was lesser issu...
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markchengr wrote:
I once worked in a ship's control room with vinyl tile on the deck. When sailing in a dry winter climate, we would get a rude shock after a few steps and then touching controls. We discovered that if we hooked a leather belt on the back of our pants and let it drag on the deck behind us, we got no more static shocks. It became the uniform of the day. -Mark.
Interesting... Here in the high Nevada desert the static is terrible...I just walked over to turn the volume control on a high-end ($$) preamp and the spark was so dang powerful it took out the right channel entirely...Try as I might, I could only conclude that it was fried...After a few calls, a tech told me to turn it back on and leave on for about 30 minutes and try again...Yea, it’s now up and working again!!
