The Voice from a Static Man

Living in a cold and dry climate, I tend to experience lots of static shock. I have got zapped whenever I touched the door knob. I almost burnt myself down when I refilled my car with gasoline at the gas station last weekend. I had fried many Integrated circuits and boards at working place and I never got the chance to pass my wrist strap testing.

Am I born a Static Man? I wear a wool sweater with a leather jacket on top and with a rubber shoes. When it is too cold, I would put on gloves and cover my head with wool scarf.

What is wrong with me? Can anyone help me? I had asked many people around me about the solution for my problems. Here is some of what they say:

1] Your skin might be too dry. Put on some lotion, it will help to reduce your dry skin problem.
2] Put on ESD smock at work place and ESD shoes. It would help to drain the static charge that accumulated on your body.
3] Place an ESD floor mat at your working place. The ESD shoes only work well when the ESD floor mat/floor is around.
4] Wear ESD boot/shoes even at outside your working place.
The earth surface is conductive in nature and it would help to drain away the static charges. 5] Do not wear rubber glove. Get an ESD glove.
6] Remember to touch the car frame when you come out. That is to drain the static charges on your body.
7] Use ionizer to neutralize the static charge at your work place.

I felt thankful to the people whom had given the advice. Their insights had helped me to understand static electricity in one way or another.

Without them, I am lost.

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