so you got that fancy new graphics card
a so nice oh but wait you rub your feet
on the carpet you touch it and it's dead so you've heard of static electricity
and you know that if you touch someone and zap it this that's bad but how do
you actually protect delicate fragile electronic components from the danger of
static electricity layer number one is usually some kind of an anti-static uh
padded foam usually gray or bubble wrap
that is usually pink all right so it's going to come inside one of those in all
likelihood next up is your anti-static bag this usually has some kind of a
conductive material on the outside of the bag that allows electrostatic to be
discharged without actually reaching the delicate components inside now a common
mistake that I see particularly with motherboards is people take that fresh
motherboard out of the box take it out of the bag put it on top of the bag in
order to call that an anti-static safe workstation wrong the outside of the bag
is conductive and not actually good to be used for that so now that it's all
naked and stuff how do you keep your new expensive graphics card from being
destroyed first of all don't handle it by the sensitive components on the PCB
handle it by the edges or by things like heat sinks which are less likely to be
Zapped into Oblivion number two is ground yourself dissipate the static
electricity by touching something that is connected to a ground such as a power
supply that is plugged in but turned off
another option if you can't remember to do that every time you move or every
couple minutes is to use an antistatic wrist trap you don't have to keep it on
your wrist you can instead keep it on your ankle but this will constantly
ground you out as long as the other end which is usually an alligator clip is
connected to something that will dissipate the electricity a great example would be something like a
plugged in power supply some people plug them directly into the wall but make
sure you plug it into the correct part of the wall or you might have a bit of a
problem double check the way that the wiring works in your region lineus Tech
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