Re: Static electricity and keyboard freeze????
Bruce Carter (bcarter@mentor.idbsu.edu)
Mon, 4 Dec 1995 20:49:58 EST
At 12:47 AM 12/4/95, Thomas M. Akashi wrote:
>For a while, at our new computer lab, we also had lots of static electricity.
>The main source was the carpeting in the lab. Since our lab was networked, we
>did seem to have periodic freezes which were probably due to the static
>electricity zapping the cabling. Anyways, the point that I wanted to mention
>is that the terminator on thin net coaxial cableing has a small chain on it.
>That chain is suppose to be grounded to a screw, at least on one end of the
>cableing. That might help reduce the problems, if you are running a network.
Fabric softener seems to work well for us to suppress static problems in
areas that do not have grounding mats or anti-static carpet. Real
anti-static carpeting has conductive metal filaments and is fairly
expensive, not to mention the darn stuff wears out fast. The custodians
mix some in when they shampoo the carpets as well as periodically spray the
computer areas with little spray bottle gadgets.
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