Electrostatic discharge (ESD) testing is essential for many antistatic equipment and products. It is the process of checking the resistance of a device to electrostatic discharge (the sudden transfer ...

Some years ago while replacing a hard drive, I had a motherboard fail from ESD (electrostatic discharge). Ever since then, I've used ESD wrist straps whenever I work on a computer and have never had ...

A $5 anti-static wrist strap can prevent deadly electrostatic discharges when building or repairing your PC. Here’s how it ...

Nobody likes getting zapped from an electrostatic discharge, no matter whether you’re a fragile ASIC or a bag-of-mostly-salty-water humanoid. To prevent this, ESD wrist straps and similar are ...

DVADER managed to succinctly summarize my stand on the subject:<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip_ubbcode_quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>A wrist strap is the ...

I'm gonna start putting my new comp together, and was recommended to buy one of those wrist straps that I guess you attatch to a running computer so you ground yourself out and don't fry your parts.