RE: Help needed.....may loose job....

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Brian,

Being earthed is NOT the important thing.

the Important thing is to be at the same potential as the equipment being
worked on.

If you were connected to earth and the PC was not connected to anything
then
you can zap it just as much as if the PC were earthed and you werent.

By wearing a wrist strap connected to the chassis of the equipment you were
working on you ensured that there was no difference in potential between
your body and the hardware therefore you can not zap the internals of the
PC.

Hope everything works out OK.

HTH

Keith

www.diyha.co.uk
www.kat5.tv


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian G. Reynolds [mailto:brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 21 July 2003 18:16
> To: Ukha_D (E-mail)
> Subject: [ukha_d] Help needed.....may loose job....
>
>
> Sorry for this but once again I am in trouble......
>
> I was building some laptop machines today and as I was
> fitting some RAM I had my wrist band on and connected to a
> bit of internal metal.
>
> What I usually do is connect the power supply but switched
> off so as to earth the PC but this time I was just bonded.
>
> I think I am the only one in the company that owns a wrist
> band and probably the only one to use one, but one of the
> managers decided to have a go at me saying I should wear a
> wrist band that is plugged into a power outlet, fair comment,
> but if I do that I am still not bonded to the equipment as I
> was in the position I was in.
>
> Anyway I have been told to get legal representation tomorrow......
>
> Can anyone point me/advise me of the current thinking on this please?
>
> Thanks all,
>
> B.
>
>
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