More than one person grounded
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Herc08
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My wife and I build PCs all the time. You realy don't need to plug in a PSU to be grounded. Just continue to touch the metal parts of the case and stay off the carpet. Having two anti-ESD straps can help as well, but no needed. I build my PCs on a wood table on tile floors. I recently upgraded RAM and changed out a CPU and installed an AIO cooler.
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I agree, I have never seen or even heard about anyone I know damaging a computer part with static, people worry about this far too much in my opinion. Assuming you are not rubbing you feet on the carpet then touching your parts you should be fine, just touch some bare metal on the case as suggested above. To answer your question yes I don't see why two people couldn't be grounded with the psu.
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the problem does happen, those stories of weird mainboard errors after cleaning the pc, well, sudden deaths of ethernet cards, sound cards, all that kind of problems surely are related o that esd situations
the only real problem is touch directly the chips , if you touch a choke or a capacitor, a connector or the soldiering points of those, is very likely that nothing will happen, but touch the chips directly is a bad idea, the material on them and the contacts will not have protection for sudden discharges of voltages coming from your hand and will end burned
cmos technology used on those chips is very sensible to esd, supposedly manufacturers have mad some improvements on the recent decades but cmos will always be sensible to esd
something that is not considered by most is that some houses can have improper ground installation and wiring, so the wristband could be doing anything
the only real problem is touch directly the chips , if you touch a choke or a capacitor, a connector or the soldiering points of those, is very likely that nothing will happen, but touch the chips directly is a bad idea, the material on them and the contacts will not have protection for sudden discharges of voltages coming from your hand and will end burned
cmos technology used on those chips is very sensible to esd, supposedly manufacturers have mad some improvements on the recent decades but cmos will always be sensible to esd
something that is not considered by most is that some houses can have improper ground installation and wiring, so the wristband could be doing anything
James Mason
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The most common example of ESD is the "OOO WHAT DOES THIS BUTTON DO?" type of touching where some 3rd party extends 1 finger to touch a CPU without touching anything else.
And then of course they did that in a fireworks packing plant and blow the whole building up.
And then of course they did that in a fireworks packing plant and blow the whole building up.
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