I keep getting shocked!

[William Gaatjes]

A friend of my could charge his chair up by moving around while sitting. When he stood up, he could create sparks from his chair to earth about 4 inches long. Long enough and powerful enough and loud enough to let his computer reset while touching nothing from his computer except the earth on the mains contact.

 

[rudeguy]

Highly probable situation coming up :
In the end, you will find out that the cause was not what you smashed.

I know this. I wrecked my grounding strap after I got nailed today. I don't get mad, I don't. Unless I feel pain, then my pent up rage likes to come up. I pretty much hulk smash stuff if I get hurt.

It has to be a static issue or leakage from my solder station. The grounding strap *should* have eliminated the static possibility. But the multimeter didn't show any current coming from the solder station.

I'm going to see if I can find one of those anti-static mats and see if that helps. The air is super dry right now and it very well could be that I'm a static magnet. I also put in an RMA for my solder station. I'm trying to cover all my bases.

But I'm not touching shit that has power going to it until I know this is fixed.

 

[dighn]

you could try making a e-field meter with a FET, one from an electret microphone would work and then just see where the charge build up is lol

 

[Rubycon]

I know this. I wrecked my grounding strap after I got nailed today. I don't get mad, I don't. Unless I feel pain, then my pent up rage likes to come up. I pretty much hulk smash stuff if I get hurt.

It has to be a static issue or leakage from my solder station. The grounding strap *should* have eliminated the static possibility. But the multimeter didn't show any current coming from the solder station.

I'm going to see if I can find one of those anti-static mats and see if that helps. The air is super dry right now and it very well could be that I'm a static magnet. I also put in an RMA for my solder station. I'm trying to cover all my bases.

But I'm not touching shit that has power going to it until I know this is fixed.

If it's static your grounding topology, well, sucks.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Our office is like a van degraff generator. Get shocked everywhere. Humidity is very low when the humidifier is off, and we tend to turn it off as it just gets so loud and can barely hear people on the phone. The other day I was getting shocked off the Keurig's LCD touch screen and it made it act funny, I had to turn it off and then back on. I touched the metal door frame to discharge the rest of the electricity. :biggrin:

 

[rudeguy]

If it's static your grounding topology, well, sucks.

Yea...figured out that grounding myself is what made it worse. I have to find a grounded multi function station to replace the one I use now. Until my new shop gets built, I'm stuck fighting static.