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# Static Electricity!

My computer room is carpeted and walking across the floor will generate quite a build up of a static charge. And coming near a grounded (or a large conductive ungrounded) object results in a loud snap and a jolt. But when I set up my computer room I made it less of a danger to my equipment. I ran a wire from the ground on the outlet box and to a pair of copper self adhesive strips on my main computer table. Between the copper strips and the ground is a 1 megohm resistor of perhaps 1 or 2 watts and even with that I still feel a small jolt but don’t see and hear the snap. I got the copper roll at a HAMFEST from a junk box. The way I have positioned the copper tape it is touchable from either computer table so both computers are protected so long as I remember to touch the strips before touching anything else. 0/0.