gzt: Haters gonna hate. It's obviously anti static carpet. : )

Good for elbows and knees......

I'd recheck the listing tomorrow, about 3-30pm. If no change, 4-30pm in case he is in detention.  

To be fair, we have pretty similar looking anti-static lino on our electronic workshop floors.  There is a minuscule possibility that this is the case here - fingers crossed if you're the buyer ;-)

tdgeek: Hhds?

Hard hard-drives. Aeroplane grade stuff.

Just to play devils advocate here but when last did anyone kill a PC component through static electricity?

I certainly have never managed to do it and Im pretty careless when handling components...

Dratsab:

 

tdgeek: Hhds?

 

Hard hard-drives. Aeroplane grade stuff.

 

No SSD is the male counterpart of HHD, which is female.

Duel CPU support is needed if you want to fight off the viruses that the mouse brings in.

tchart:

 

Just to play devils advocate here but when last did anyone kill a PC component through static electricity?

 

I certainly have never managed to do it and Im pretty careless when handling components...

 

Must admit, last time I killed a full PC via static was probably 15 years ago..... :)

muttley68:

 

Shocking....

 

Ohm dear, so you didn't have the capacitance to resist did you?

Just like the shampoo ad it my not happen today but it will happen 

tchart:

Just to play devils advocate here but when last did anyone kill a PC component through static electricity?

tchart:

 

Just to play devils advocate here but when last did anyone kill a PC component through static electricity?

 

I certainly have never managed to do it and Im pretty careless when handling components...

 

I've been subjected to a few Static Handling precautions lectures, and apparently the vast majority of static discharge damage results not in instant failure, but damage that leads to failure down the track - which people are not going necessarily going to attribute to carless handling in the past.

tripper1000:

 

I've been subjected to a few Static Handling precautions lectures, and apparently the vast majority of static discharge damage results not in instant failure, but damage that leads to failure down the track - which people are not going necessarily going to attribute to carless handling in the past.

 

I'm no expert either, but that's also my understanding. Static generates high voltages, which cause damage reducing the lifetime of the logic gates in components etc, which then fail later down the track, but still far sooner than they should.

A wee while ago I was able to work in a telephone exchange.  Poorly managed air conditioning with very low humidity.  Nice wheelie armchair and a linoleum race track from control point to control point on the bench.  This was a brilliant design static generator.  Pain taught the Tech to touch pad as often as possible instead of throwing a 10mm spark at the next ground contact. 

Do not know that placing things on carpet would produce that many ergs to blow things to bits.

This auction may have been listed by the tea lady.

G 

tchart:

 

Just to play devils advocate here but when last did anyone kill a PC component through static electricity?

 

I certainly have never managed to do it and Im pretty careless when handling components...

 

There is the issue of "soft damage" where it does not kill the chip instantly, however the chip will die prematurely

The customer and service engineer then do not link the 2 events separated by potentially weeks/months .

And with computers the owner then decides that it has become old and unreliable and buys a new one so

the service tech never sees the damage they caused anyway.

Person I know who takes no precautions whatsoever seems to have terrible luck with ram failing. Yet mine which I get the cheapest stuff they sell generally seems rock solid.

Not sure if there is any connection at all, but ram would be one of the easiest to damage with all those data lines sitting unprotected at all on the gold edge connectors etc.