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Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.video
Subject: Re: Soldering in MOSFETs
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Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 12:12:03 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  8 12:12:03 1987
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In article <11576@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> dplatt@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Dave Platt) writes:
> ... Electronics assemblers frequently wear a conductive wrist-strap
>connected by wire to a nearby ground point...
>you could probably fake up something
>similar by taking 10' of thin (22-gauge) insulated copper wire,
>stripping and grounding one end, and stripping about 8" at the other
>end and tying it loosely around your wrist.

... and doing so is VERY dangerous, and probably a violation of
OSHA rules and regs... The ground strap you speak of have a 1 Megohm
resistor in series between personnel and the earth ground. This is
to limit the discharge current from personnel, and to provide for only
a extremely poor circuit THROUGH personnel in case of inadvertent
contact with powered circuits.
--- Safety is Job 1 ---

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