Static grrrrrrrrrr.............

yermum

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Really bad with static over the last couple of days. So far I've managed to make our youngest cry when I kissed him, completely freeze the home pc, get a nasty shock off the oven, a door handle and the front door, plus send a spark aboiut a foot across the hall.

Apart from sticking an earth wire up my bum, what can I do?
 
yermum said:
Really bad with static over the last couple of days. So far I've managed to make our youngest cry when I kissed him, completely freeze the home pc, get a nasty shock off the oven, a door handle and the front door, plus send a spark aboiut a foot across the hall.

Apart from sticking an earth wire up my bum, what can I do?
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I have had exactly the same problem. Not sure if its nylon carpets at work or home but in the past 4 months I've become Mr. electric and shock myself about 4~5 times a day. Sometimes the charge is very painful.. And you can hear all the crackling when I remove my jump at night :(

No idea what can be done about it tho
 
Over the last 2-3 days I've been having exactly the same problem.

Spooky.. I wonder if there's something going on?. /magic
 
benneh said:
Over the last 2-3 days I've been having exactly the same problem.

Spooky.. I wonder if there's something going on?. /magic
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Perhaps it's finally proof that morons conduct electricity better! :p

Then again (for some mad reason) every time I try to adjust the arm rest on my chair at work I get a nasty static shock too!

\the ironing is delicious
 
Old cars used to have them dangly things underneath them to get rid of static. You could get a few of those, and tape them to your leg, so they drag on the ground.

Sorted.
 
When working in the labs at work we wear anti-static ankle band things, over the past week every time I have touched the door to go in to the labs (where the anti-static flooring is, the bands only work on special conductive flooring) I've gotten a shock.
 
Le_Petit_Lapin said:
Old cars used to have them dangly things underneath them to get rid of static. You could get a few of those, and tape them to your leg, so they drag on the ground.

Sorted.
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That wasn't for static, it was for lightening.. or BIG static.

Its to let it go to ground in the event a lightening bolt struck a vehicle *(fuel!), cars don't need them any longer.
 
Hilariously, I've had the same thing. Every time I close the car door and whenever I touch metal at work. Considering I messing around with reference design set top boxes all day its been quite annoying!

I honestly think its my new jeans.......
 
Oh yes, I'd forgotten about the car. Really bad shocks from that. I went upstairs a little while ago as our youngesat had woken up and got a bad shock off the bunk beds. I could see the spark in the dark.

Some years ago I suffered from this for a couple of months and it played havoc with one particular computer program which was payroll. Basically I just had to fill in the boxes for hours, rate of pay etc and the program did the rest. Whenever I tried to us it the cursor kept jumping out of the box. The program was analysed twice and the software supplier found nothing. They suggested a special mat to put under my chair.
 
If I remember right from a very long time ago at school , my science teacher said that static builds up more when the air is dry. The fine weather over the last fewdays may be partly responsible.
Or it could be all those microwaves from mobile phones slowly cooking us:)
dons foil hat! or maybe not as they are conductive lol.
static from clothes out of the tumble dryer I find can be horrendous, but I've found a solution to this. Pay someone to do the washing and ironing:)
 
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