Re: Cleaning Circuit Boards and "Static" rant

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, "Smoke" <Smoke@5...> wrote:

> I'll have to disagree with you on this one based on actual

experience.

> I live in southern Colorado where the humidity level has gotten

down to less

> than 4%.
>
> I have rugs through out the place I live in and we have gas

heating. In the

> winter, the static gets so bad, you get "good" shocks just walking

across

> the floor and turning on a light switch.
>
> At any rate, I once blew out a modem AND a mouse because of static.!
>
> Smoke

Hi,

2% to 4% relative humidities are not uncommon. I would only counter
with the tens of thousands devices handled versus two. That, and the
the intrinsic error in any aprophycal experience.

Mariss
Geckodrive Inc.