Static electricity

[pandoraefretum]

Hi Group,

Sometimes I touch my sub-woofers, usually to change a setting, and get a nasty static electricity shock...
Sometimes, it's fine... more often than not I get no shock, in fact.
Yesterday I touched one of my Amps and got the same nasty shock...
I'm afraid these little shocks slightly damage the electronics...

What can be done to avoid static shocks ? Gloves ?
Of course, a remote is a good idea and usually avoids the problem

Thanks, Roland, Bristol, UK

[Jazid]

Try wearing no shoes and see if that helps, or provide an earth point that you can touch next to the kit so you can discharge through it before touching the amps.

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[pandoraefretum]

Appreciated Jazid... I don't usually wear shoes, but you've given me ideas...
How do I provide an Earth point ?

[Pharos]

IMO it is almost certainly you being charged up, and then the charge being discharged through your equipment's earth via the casings.

If so I think harm is unlikely. You may have an artificial carpet and a dry atmosphere which causes this, I used to get a hell of a belt from things in my council flat which was dry and hot, but now at the coast it never happens, the air being very humid.

[Macca]

The static charge is on you. Wear less nylon!

It won't harm the equipment at all, not unless you can charge yourself up to the point were the discharge is enough to kill you. :)

[Joe]

Alternatively, build up enough charge that you can run the system on static electricity. Saves on the leccy bill and eliminates the need for fancy mains cables.

[Macca]

Alternatively, build up enough charge that you can run the system on static electricity. Saves on the leccy bill and eliminates the need for fancy mains cables.

At that point you might as well knock up a costume and become a super-hero. Stopping bank robbers and such like with massive blasts of static. Call yourself 'Nylon Man' or something like that.

[Roy S]

'Nylon Man'

More a fetish than a super power?

[Macca]

More a fetish than a super power?

A little from column A, a little from column B.

[walpurgis]

More a fetish than a super power?

Ah fetishes. Don't think I've got any. I'd like to try one though, see what all the fuss is about! :)

[Roy S]

If you have a foot fetish and cheat on your other half does that mean you get off on the wrong foot?

[sumday]

Your radiator will provide a convenient earth point.
If you are worried by discharge into your kit, simply touch it on the way to you stuff....then swear.

In my less enlightened years......what, last week etc....I had a tube TV in the bedroom next to a radiator.
Observing the tube crackling merrily on shutdown I pondered the voltage available so wiped my hand around the face then touched the rad.

The blue arc was quite large.....and increased my colourful language by a surprising amount.

[Mike Reed]

Cure the problem and you'll be ex static.

[RobbieGong]

Cure the problem and you'll be ex static.

:rfl: Oh man!, this place ....... :lol:

[struth]

:rfl: Oh man!, this place ....... :lol:

When static is bad I use my stick. Grip the metal and then touch it onto something earthed. No shock as spark is between earth and stick.

[Barry]

:rfl: Oh man!, this place ....... :lol:

ecstatic < ekstasis, distraction < ek + histanai, out (of) place or, by implication "out of oneself".

I've received static shocks from wearing composite soled shoes and walking on wood floors, when I touched the controls of my Freeview box - ouch!

[walpurgis]

I get static shocks every time I get out of my car. Probably down to the dodgy synthetic fabric seat covers. :)

[mikmas]

Yonks ago I got a new Akai amp that had a (for that time) revolutionary control panel that used touch contacts to switch sources; only problem was I had to jump in the air to make it work .. if I was making contact with the carpet the buttons wouldn't respond :lol:

[walpurgis]

I have the same problem with smartphone screens. They are reluctant to co-operate with the touch of my fingers. (know a few girls like that too :rolleyes:)

[struth]

I get static shocks every time I get out of my car. Probably down to the dodgy synthetic fabric seat covers. :)

Firmly hold the metal door before putting foot down. It won t hurt then when it discharges