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Thread ID: 77961	2007-03-29 03:13:00	Beware - Static Electricity	sarel (2490)	PC World Chat

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536670	2007-03-30 11:40:00	Correct, bonding leads have the lowest possible impedance. Mea Culpa. You are welcome to this I was working on a job a couple of weeks back that was generating 25kV or more of static from a large surface area (took my static meter right off scale). The sparks were leaping 2.5-3 cm and the discharge current was more than enough to kill if you got it hand to hand or hand to ground via your body. I'm currently working on solutions to eliminate the static completely. Just a little frisky for my liking. Having once idly examined a DSE "Anti-Static strap" I immediately made my own and binned the "professional" product. (No strain relief on leads, and most excitingly, approx .5mm between the solder pads of the "isolating" resistor which was a simple 1/8 watt commercial resistor !) At an early age, we amused ourselves by drawing sparks of reasonable (150mm) length from the feed horn of the radar on Sunderlands to a finger while they were undergoing maintenance at the Braby(?) Quite hair raising. Livened up the radar mech's too. The process they were involved in was popularly known as "Tuning for maximum smoke". The process we were attempting was known by a variety of names, none of them complimentary to us or our parents. Safety precautions consisted of ensuring no NCO's or Officers were in sight.	R2x1 (4628)
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