I've got a small problem at work. I'm in a cozy fluorescent-lit cubicle. I sit in this plastic chair, typing at a plastic keyboard, which sits on a plastic desktop.
I have no idea whether I'm getting a positive charge or a negative charge, but believe you me, some electrons are changing hands over here, as whenever I stand up and touch something, I get a nasty shock.
The weather has been anything but dry, so I don't see any relief coming from that direction. I'm wondering if there might be something easy that I could set up to keep myself grounded while I'm at my desk, to leak off those Coulombs as they arrive and not have to do the capacitance discharge mambo whenever I get up to go to the photocopier, or to get myself a bowl of gruel, or whatever it is they keep in that trough.
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1 comment:
Stop wearing pantyhose. You need LESS plastic in your life.
They sell plastic pads in office supply places that go under your chair that are supposed to discharge static. I have no idea if they work or not.
The static can cause a lot of problems, like wiping out keyboards. If you want to discharge painlessly, touch a wall (if it's not plastic).
If it's really bad get a grounded wrist strap, or piss on the carpet (the humidity and conductive salts help).
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