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Get heavy bare copper cables. Attach them by clamps around your ankles. Say at least ten foot long.
Where ever you walk around the house you will be grounded and no charges can build up even while wearing thick rubber soled shoes. Your dogs will love you. Cats will love being able to play with the copper snakes crawling around your house.
get heavy bare copper cables. Attach them by clamps around your ankles. Say at least ten foot long.
Where ever you walk around the house you will be grounded and no charges can build up even while wearing thick rubber soled shoes. Your dogs will love you. Cats will love being able to play with the copper snakes crawling around your house.
Cosmic was of course joking but in principal he's sort of on one of the right tracks.
Static discharge is a HUGE costly problem in the electronics industry. That little spark that you feel is actually a couple of thousand volts...and that's way more than enough to kill unprotected micro electronic assemblies.
Assembly and tec folks typically wear a wrist strap attached with a coiled wire to a grounded station..btw.. it's a very resistive connection otherwise if you do touch a live wire you're dead !!..and typically you stay that way for a very long time
Anti static sprays can help...they do work but most will require reapplication after laundering.
Having supervised and worked in static controlled micro electronic assembly clean rooms I can tell you the average humidifier you get at Target etc won't put out nearly enough water vapor into the air to do much. In those industrial situations a bunch of money is spent to combat the problem. For them it's just part of the cost of doing what they do.
It's a short term problem in your case so you don't want to throw a lot of money at the problem. Keep pots of water slowly simmering on the stove with a ringing timer to remind you to check them...turn off when you go to bed...back on again in the mmorning. Hang wet (but not dripping on the floor) towels all over the place...on wire hangers in/on every door jams ...yeah it looks stupid but it's just during these cold snaps.
it takes gallons..YES GALLONS of water per day for MANY days before you will begin to notice any real difference
What kind of a heating system do you have? My parents have forced hot air (oil fired) and have a humidifier built into their system. If that's not an option: if you have grates in the floor, that's where the bowls of water should be so that the heated air has to pass through them and grab the moisture; or if you have baseboard heating, there are specifically-designed plastic "bowls" (they're rectangular) that attach to the baseboards.
If you like plants, add a bunch to your house! They add water to the air by evaporation from the water in the soil as well as add oxygen to the air -- think chemistry - hydrogen and oxygen love to and easily combine.
Static discharge is a HUGE costly problem in the electronics industry. That little spark that you feel is actually a couple of thousand volts...and that's way more than enough to kill unprotected micro electronic assemblies.
Assembly and tec folks typically wear a wrist strap attached with a coiled wire to a grounded station..btw.. it's a very resistive connection otherwise if you do touch a live wire you're dead !!..and typically you stay that way for a very long time
Electrostatic Discharge, or ESD, is a single-event, rapid transfer of electrostatic charge between two objects, usually resulting when two objects at different potentials come into direct contact with each other. ESD can also occur when a high electrostatic field develops between two objects in close proximity. ESD is one of the major causes of device failures in the semiconductor industry.
They make it because of the reason mentioned above having to work on circuit boars with semi conductors which are very sensitive to ESD. When I had to carry circuit boards to clean them or test them this was the best and safest way to transport them. We had test stations so we could make sure we were grounded. The shoes I used back then had a strap (similar to a battery strap that helps you extract batteries from electronics) that would tuck into your shoe so it was always in contact with your sock. As long as both of them were in contact with your socks it was good to go. Couldn't blow up 6 digit circuit boards . It will be less effective on carpet but you should notice a difference especially if you follow all the others recommendations. Good luck.
be sure to get a humidistat thing to check the percentage of humidity. sounds like you are getting enough
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. It will be less effective on carpet but you should notice a difference especially if you follow all the others recommendations. Good luck.
