(Please only people that know what there are talking about should answer, thanks.)
Hi everyone,
People are saying different things regarding this with ESD and it's driving me nuts.
Some things I do understand, but the thing that I can't figure out now is if I should connect the ESD-mat to my house grounding.
Some people says that it's not needed and that I should just connect the mat to the computer and to my wrist as I only need to have the same level (grounding) as the computer and therefore I don't need to connect it to my houses grounding.
An other people are telling me that I need to connect to my houses grouding because it wont work if I do it and my component are in danger for ESD.
So now I have connected it like this:
ESD-Mat to my computer (don't know if it's the best place to connect it in the computer, it's hard as it's a laptop)
ESD-Mat to my wrist troug ha ESD-wristband.
I'm putting my ESD-safe tools on the mat all the time before and during when I'm screwing in my laptop.
I put the component package in 30sec before I'm opening it so that it 'll have the same level of energi as the rest of the things.
Is this the right way to do it? Or should I also ground it in my houses grounding?
Hi everyone,
People are saying different things regarding this with ESD and it's driving me nuts.
Some things I do understand, but the thing that I can't figure out now is if I should connect the ESD-mat to my house grounding.
Some people says that it's not needed and that I should just connect the mat to the computer and to my wrist as I only need to have the same level (grounding) as the computer and therefore I don't need to connect it to my houses grounding.
An other people are telling me that I need to connect to my houses grouding because it wont work if I do it and my component are in danger for ESD.
So now I have connected it like this:
ESD-Mat to my computer (don't know if it's the best place to connect it in the computer, it's hard as it's a laptop)
ESD-Mat to my wrist troug ha ESD-wristband.
I'm putting my ESD-safe tools on the mat all the time before and during when I'm screwing in my laptop.
I put the component package in 30sec before I'm opening it so that it 'll have the same level of energi as the rest of the things.
Is this the right way to do it? Or should I also ground it in my houses grounding?