how to use static wrist strap

[GMezhevidze]

Hello, sorry for this sort of newbie question. I'm planning on building my first pc and i'm interested in rules (rules!?) of how to use static wrist strap, and also what it does and why is it necessary. 

Thanks, all help is appreciated  
 

[RevoltTrain]

I've built over 100 systems and never used one once. I don't see the need for them

[DimasRMDO]

Hello, sorry for this sort of newbie question. I'm planning on building my first pc and i'm interested in rules (rules!?) of how to use static wrist strap, and also what it does and why is it necessary. 

Thanks, all help is appreciated  

 

You wear it????

[brokencross]

Clamp it to grounded naked metal. A screw half screwed in to a PSU is fine. 

Oh, and the psu should be turned off and plugged to an extension also turned off.

[W-L]

Hello, sorry for this sort of newbie question. I'm planning on building my first pc and i'm interested in rules (rules!?) of how to use static wrist strap, and also what it does and why is it necessary. 

Thanks, all help is appreciated  

 

 

For the majority of situations when building a PC as long as you discharge yourself by touching the casing of a plugged in but powered off PSU your good. For PC parts they are fairly forgiving in static discharge but it's still good practices especially with extremely sensitive equipment.

 

For the braclet just wear it on your wrist and connect the other end to the metal casing, ideally bare metal of the PSU to ground yourself. Another is a copper water pipe or using the building ground wire but if your not familiar with that I suggest not to do that.

[TechSam]

anti static wrist strap is not "needed" but recommended in most cases you will be fine whitout it only exceptions are professional level building where you touch the naked parts of the components but you most likely are not so its fine