Building on flat tiles?

[jjimmy_q]

Hey I have no wooden desk and I'm planning to build my pc on tiles, do I have to worry about esd?

[Crunchy Dragon]

As long as you're careful, you don't have to worry about ESD basically anywhere.

 

Tiles should be fine, as far as I know, those don't hold or conduct electricity.

[Jormungandr_Upphaf]

What Crunchy said. Just don't wear gym shorts, those things create so much static for me. Just touch the metal part of the case every once in a while and you'll be fine.

[Canada EH]

Carpet doesnt conduct electricity. Sure gives off a good zap!

Same with hair!

[corrado33]

Jesus christ everybody.

 

Ceramic (tiles) are LITERALLY an insulator. It will not conduct electricity.

 

Not that it matters, you'd have to TRY to zap your motherboard with static electricity in order to do any harm. 

 

OP, just touch bare metal of your case (not the painted bits... a bare bit) before you stick your hand inside the case and you'll be fine. Or you could LITERALLY touch any metal part of any appliance in your house. Every single thing with a metal case is REQUIRED to be grounded. You could also touch your faucets. (Provided they're metal.)

 

Static electricity is really not that big of a deal...

 

I literally only build on carpet because I don't have a large enough flat space to build it on a table and I don't want to kneel down on the wood floor. 

[Dabombinable]

14 minutes ago, corrado33 said:

Jesus christ everybody.

 

Ceramic (tiles) are LITERALLY an insulator. It will not conduct electricity.

 

Not that it matters, you'd have to TRY to zap your motherboard with static electricity in order to do any harm. 

 

OP, just touch bare metal of your case (not the painted bits... a bare bit) before you stick your hand inside the case and you'll be fine. Or you could LITERALLY touch any metal part of any appliance in your house. Every single thing with a metal case is REQUIRED to be grounded. You could also touch your faucets. (Provided they're metal.)

 

Static electricity is really not that big of a deal...

 

I literally only build on carpet because I don't have a large enough flat space to build it on a table and I don't want to kneel down on the wood floor. 

Its actually kind of funny that even with rough treatment, none of my retro stuff which lacks the ASD protection of newer parts and is still working perfectly. Then again, I never wear or work in environments where I know that static electricity is a problem (eg. rooms with old carpet that's had plenty of time to collect a lot of dirt and grit).

[Crunchy Dragon]

19 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

Its actually kind of funny that even with rough treatment, none of my retro stuff which lacks the ASD protection of newer parts and is still working perfectly. Then again, I never wear or work in environments where I know that static electricity is a problem (eg. rooms with old carpet that's had plenty of time to collect a lot of dirt and grit).

I haven't worn an ESD band since my first one or two builds, never killed a component via ESD.

 

Heck, I wear sweatpants and socks on carpet while disassembling laptops, nothing's ever gone wrong.

[N1NJ4W4RR10R]

Unless you've got some weird tiles, it won't.