Yes, it's true, but here in Sao Paulo, Brazil is hard to stay below 70% of
humidity, and temperature stay between 20°C and 30°C. I never toasted an
eletronic device with eletrostatic, of course I use a ground wire atacched
to me.
Regards
Fabio Palma
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Mailand" <Newton2k1_at_mac.com>
To: <newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net>
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [NTLK] AW: AW: Cover me... I'm goin' in!
>
> > But, if you are "grounding" your self it's not a problem, and in
countries
> > like Brazil, with a high humidity the eletrostatic never heppens.
> Is this really like you say? We've here lots of rain too (this year was
> awfull, rain from March till now with about 3 dry weeks in July and
October)
> but it still gets dry in between. Especially as soon as the temperatures
go
> below zero deg C like today and no snowfall happens, its getting dry with
> less than 20% humidity in the air. At each occasion you'll get flashed,
e.g.
> at exiting your car or greeting other persons. All that is outside but
> inhouse humidity might vary and I'm shure it is sort of dry inside brazil
> houses too :-) The danger is in rubbing modern synthetic clothes against
> modern synthetic upholstery and the like before or during touching
> electronics. If I do that work in my cellar I normally wear cotton clothes
> and use conductive foam as desk cover and connect a wrist band to the
ground
> of my soldering station.
> --
> With best regards / Viele Gruesse!
>
> Marco Mailand
> http://slsbd.psi.ch/timing
>
>
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