[G4] Seagate hard drive Installation

[Harry Freeman]

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Good answer Brian, my question was going to be, "Have you ever walked 
on a rug then touched someone and have a spark jump between you and 
"Your Friend?" Who is grounded, you or your friend.

Then function of grounding when working on electronic equipment is to 
equalize the static charge between you and the piece of equipment.

In a factory environment everyone that is working on electronic 
equipment that is susceptible to electrical damage wears' a ground 
strap that insures that the individual does not build up a static 
charge. Usually very sensitive equipment is place on a work to that is 
connected to a static discharge mat, insuring the everything is a the 
same static potential.

Having said that, all static mats in a factory are tied together and 
then taken to an earth ground that is tested at a regular interval.
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On Oct 10, 2007, at 4:53 PM, B G wrote:

> In this case by "grounding"  is referring to a means to dissipate the 
> static charge you may have in your body.
>
> Not an actual earth ground
>
> So it does not really matter is the computer itself is grounded.
>
>
> Brian
>
> G4 gigE 1.0 GHz Powerlogix, 1 GB RAM
>
> On Oct 10, 2007, at 4:43 PM, Wayne Clodfelter wrote:
>
>> O'Brien wrote:
>>> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:43:21 -0400, Wayne Clodfelter wrote:
>>>> I have read somewhere that if the computer is not plugged in, 
>>>> grounding yourself by touching the power supply case inside the 
>>>> computer will not work.
>>> Well... that would be true. If the computer isn't plugged-in it 
>>> isn't connected to ground through the house wiring. "Grounded" means 
>>> connected to the ground.
>>> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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>> yes, well, that is where the harm would come from NOT having the 
>> computer plugged in. One might think he had grounded himself, when in 
>> fact he had not.
>>
>> -- 
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>>
>> Wayne Clodfelter
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