December 25, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, LHookins said: I took an hour and 20 minute break from all things electronic this morning. 😧 Are you okay? Sorry to hear that. I'm sure, in time, the EM fields from your devices will restore your normal equilibrium, the state that bathing in this electronic smog has bestowed upon us. You will be glowing again shortly and that familiar sparking and crackling from your finger tips when you touch things will be back. 1 hour ago, LHookins said: Been there, done that. Am I in the club now?
December 25, 20214 yr Author 19 minutes ago, martin-w said: sparking and crackling from your finger tips when you touch things will be back. I live in a very dry climate. Many days the humidity is in single digits. And when it is and I pet my cats I can generate a spark when I lift my hand. Pluss a lot of cat hair sticking to my hand. If I raise my hand slowly you can see the cat's hair rise up due to the electrostatic charge. Sometimes if a spark is generated it startles them. Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
December 26, 20214 yr I've had static shocks from some of my cats in the past. Not the one I have now though. Maybe it's his fur or the atmospheric conditions. I first noticed it when I was about 16. Stroked my cat then touched a metal pole in the garden and got a shock. I always smile when I watch der8bauer's video's. He often has his cat messing with his hardware in his video's and I wonder if his components have ever been zapped. Quite funny in a recent video when his cat trod straight on the CPU socket. 😁
December 27, 20214 yr The worst static I ever experienced was in an office where I worked. If you scrubbed your feet on the carpet first, you could generate a 1/2 inch spark if you approached a grounded object. Approach with a key or something, and even then your wrist would jump. An engineer in the office said that represented 50,000 volts. I was carrying a phone cord to an outlet, fingers not near the socket on the cord, when a static discharge killed the modem and computer on the other end of the cord. A coworker berated me highly for it, but later had the same thing happen to him. Karma at its best. We tried everything to get rid of the static, even bringing in a professional, without effect. We finally got rid of it by spraying the entire carpet with undiluted Downey fabric softener. Hook Larry Hookins Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of EarthAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
December 27, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, LHookins said: We finally got rid of it by spraying the entire carpet with undiluted Downey fabric softener. I used to spray the soles of my slippers instead of all the broadloom in my apartment but, of course, I was the only occupant. Dugald Walker
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