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From: pdccs@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Patrick Champion)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Help: Grounding against static
Keywords: static
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Date: 25 May 89 20:15:28 GMT
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Reply-To: pdccs@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Patrick Champion)
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	Hi.  I have a hardware related question but did not know where to
post it, so here it is.

	I am getting a pc clone.  I have already ordered a surge suppressor
that protects against EMI, surges, and whatnot.  My question is, I am
going to have this PC in a tower case on the side of the desk, but the
keyboard and monitor will be on the desk.  The desk is all metal.  Do I need
a static mat under the keyboard or can I just connect the desk to the 
radiator in the room with a wire.  Also, if I wire the desk to the radiator
I heard that I should connect it through a 10,000 or so ohm resistor. Is 
this true???


A paranoid software developer getting his first home computer,
Patrick Champion