static build up on custom plastic mb tray

fastboy · 21 May 2017 at 11:05

ok so I'm trying to make my computer built into the ikea worktops I have,i have made a 'drawer' style unit which will sit inside the cutout in the worktop with a piece of 8mm clear acrylic over the top as a window and was going to use some pvcu gloss finish soffet/cladding board for the inside of it and the mb tray so it looks nice and clean and matches the worktop,however on cutting and screwing the bottom on there was a lot of static I could feel on it making the hairs on my arm stand on end when touching it.

any ideas on cures/solutions or am I just going to have to stick to paint over the wood and forget the pvcu?

thanks

fastboy · 21 May 2017 at 12:38

yes the unit which the pc is going to sit inside is made of wood which is then going to be covered inside with the pvc cladding.

I have made a mb tray before from acrylic with no problems but didn't recall any static feel from it when making it,having just felt the pvc again the static seems to have gone so touchwood might be ok,as you say I can always ground one of the mb posts to the psu casing since that's earthed.

fastboy · 21 May 2017 at 12:53

it should be ok earthed to the case of the psu since that's earthed?

fastboy · 21 May 2017 at 14:02

its an evga 500 gold,and its never unplugged always on its own socket at the wall.
thanks