SOLVED: I need help with Anti-Static Wristbands

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I am going to build a PC soon, using this video to guide me: [video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhX0fOUYd8Q."][/video]

How would I incorporate anti-static wristbands into this guide? I want to use them in my build to help decrease the risk of frying any components, do I really need them?


tl;dr: How do I incorporate anti-static wristbands into this guide (how do I ground myself but in a way where it won't mess up the arrangement of the guide), and are they really necessary in the first place?

SOLVED: Thanks to everyone that responded, it helped me out a lot :)

Thanks in advance! :)
 
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ingtar33
ahhhhh... I won't tell anyone to NOT use anti-static wrist bands. But understand I've worked with pcs for almost 25 years now (10 professionally), and I've never damaged something with static electricity and I never use them

This is the thing. As long as you have a pc with a metal/aluminum frame, you can remove static charge by making skin contact with the frame of the case. You see a metal cage is a naturally grounded item, so simply touching it from time to time will ground you. After years of experience I just casually make an effort to touch the case from time to time; in fact simply being aware of keeping skin contact with the case will do the job, resting your forearm on the case frame while you work in it, touching the frame...
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ahhhhh... I won't tell anyone to NOT use anti-static wrist bands. But understand I've worked with pcs for almost 25 years now (10 professionally), and I've never damaged something with static electricity and I never use them

This is the thing. As long as you have a pc with a metal/aluminum frame, you can remove static charge by making skin contact with the frame of the case. You see a metal cage is a naturally grounded item, so simply touching it from time to time will ground you. After years of experience I just casually make an effort to touch the case from time to time; in fact simply being aware of keeping skin contact with the case will do the job, resting your forearm on the case frame while you work in it, touching the frame with a hand, ect...

If you want to use an antistatic wristband, all you need to do is connect it to the metal/aluminum frame of your case to make it work.
 
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Do you really need them? No. You can take care to ground yourself (touch the metal part of the case) each time before you touch the components. But with a little wristband you don't have to worry about it so it's convenient and safe.
 
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The purpose of the anti-static wrist band is to discharge the static electricity on your body as you handle the parts while putting them together. They don't need to be built into the machine.

In fact you don't have to actually wear them as long as you touch them with your hand before picking up each part.

Once the machine is put together its electrical grounding system will handle the static electricity as long as you keep it relatively dust free. Dust collects a lot of static electricity so in the future be sure to blow the dust out and touch your anti-static bands before working on the parts in the machine.
 
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is great to have them

i can tell you one thing, i never used one when building a pc, since 1998 more or less, probably more

never had issues

as long is you touch a metallic surface to discharge all electrostatic charge over your body instead of on a component, usually all is fine

the idea is use the wristband connected to a properly grounded wall socket or device connected to ground in your house, or at a metallic part of the psu or case you are assembling, so the charge travels to other place

there is many great guides on internet explainng how to use, meaure if they are working and working ith them, but on pcs, i never used one or killed a pc without one

in fact, i only know a person who killed a pc without one, he was working without shoes over a carpet, he placed his finger over chipset aand he saw a nice shiny discharge over the component, dead fried mainboard, that is the only case i know that could be avoided with a wristband
 
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