Making sure my custom-built PC case won't short

Justin_nitsuJ

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I'm building a case completely out of polycarbonate. (about halfway done) Anyway a guy at Fry's said I'd need to ground my case, since it's not made out of metal already. He recommended putting a metal sheet on the back and then running a copper wire between the metal sheet and the power supply. (touching both, not piercing the power supply)
Will this work? He said it's basically to avoid any static building up in the case. Also to raise the case off the ground and set it on something metal as well. I guess there's more problems to solve when building a plastic case than I thought.
Thanks in advance!

bonus picture of progress so far: http://i.imgur.com/ZTVaImQ.jpg
 
Here are some discussions on grounding, the why and why not etc regarding plastic/poly cases. You may not even need it though I'm not entirely sure of static build up issues. Grounding is a two fold type deal, one for the equipment, the other reason to protect the user from shock when touching a metal case. The plastic case is a natural insulator of live current so risk to the user is nil (aside from static shock). It seems components should be grounded well enough via connections, the motherboard and psu cables and grounds.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=219446.0

http://www.clearcomputercase.com/Reviews/Bit_Tec/6.htm

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/cases/10688-acrylic-case-emi-static-discharge-concerns.html

http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=497421

Btw the case looks like it's coming along great.