Grounding your self

[thescreensavers]

My friend in Montana wants to install ram into his laptop and I don't know what to tell him how to ground himself.

I have a desktop and all I do is touch my power supplie and thats it my friend has a laptop and cant do this

how can he ground himself...?



Thanks

 

[stogez]

Touch any other appliance thats metal and has a grounding pin.

 

[TungFree]

run a long speaker wire from his copper pipe under the sink. then attach the othr end around the pinkeye of his right hand and work with the right hand the left only helping to balance the ram stick.

 

[stogez]

Originally posted by: TungFree
run a long speaker wire from his copper pipe under the sink. then attach the othr end around the pinkeye of his right hand and work with the right hand the left only helping to balance the ram stick.

I am assuming you meant Pinky. What difference does it make which hand he uses. You do realize that your body is all one piece right? 😛

 

[nineball9]

Originally posted by: TungFree
run a long speaker wire from his copper pipe under the sink. then attach the othr end around the pinkeye of his right hand and work with the right hand the left only helping to balance the ram stick.

For working on a laptop this would work ("pinky" anyway). However in general, this is not a good idea as it provides a low impedance current path through your body. Antistatic wrist bands are essentially a wire from your body to an electrical ground but with a 1 meg-ohm current limiting resistor in series. The series resistor prevents a high current from a potential shock hazard (120VAC house plug, e.g.) through your body.

 

[TungFree]

the reason I said right hand is I wired my home and never used my left hand where my heart can be hit with fatal results.it is a good habit.
As to nineball9's comment he maybe more on target, the resistor would keep current down through the body in case a higher voltage was picked up in the socket ground due to a sudden black deadly loose wire were touching the sockets ground momentarily as you were connecting to it.
As to spelling of pinky I am a poor speller born in Europe and pinkeye sounded good to me LOL. Can you speak Russian German Polish and Spanish too? I am sure I would be correcting your other languages if you tried to write in them. did you know the spell checker I have passed my pinkeye and red flagged your pinky?

well it does that.

Is it tit for tat? tit for me and tat for you?

 

[stogez]

I'm not sure why you took my post as offensive and had to take up half your last post just to retort.
Anyway its probably a good idea not to have the laptop plugged in while you have it open and changing things inside. That should also cut down on the possibility of you having a fatal current going through your heart.

 

[Herradura]

Well thats easy, you should just tell him to not watch TV for a week HAHA get it, I know stupid LoL