[Elecraft] Grounding Mat Chatter

[David Woolley (E.L)]

Some of the anti-static bags that Elecraft use are the pink ones.  Those 
are non-conducting and get their anti-static properties by not 
generating static, rather than dissipating it.  They would be useless as 
an anti-static mat.

kf4by wrote:
> 
> For a grounding mat I simply used the anti-static bag the RF board
+ was packaged in. I clipped my wrist strap to it until the radio grew 
to be a
+ chassis. At that time I clipped the wrist strap to the chassis but kept
+ the "mat" in place. All sub-assembly components were unwrapped on the
+ "mat". Hence everything was the same potential.


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