Help with ESD/Grounding.

[DannyBoii]

 I've got a plastic mat on my medium pile carpet. My apartment only has carpet, but I have an esd bracelet. am I good if I ground on a plugged in/turned off PSU?

 

I have to take parts out of a pc on the carpet and put some of them in my new build. I feel like I should take the psu from my old pc and then ground via the esd bracelet and I should be good. Is that accurate?

[tikker]

6 minutes ago, DannyBoii said:

am I good if I ground on a plugged in/turned off PSU?

Should be. For actual ground ground the socket it's plugged into will also need to be grounded of course.

8 minutes ago, DannyBoii said:

I have to take parts out of a pc on the carpet and put some of them in my new build. I feel like I should take the psu from my old pc and then ground via the esd bracelet and I should be good. Is that accurate?

Do you not have a table or something?

[DannyBoii]

9 minutes ago, tikker said:

Should be. For actual ground ground the socket it's plugged into will also need to be grounded of course.

Do you not have a table or something?

Yeah I do. I just don't have money to replace anything if I shock it to death xD The table is plastic and wood. I am paranoid!

 

EDIT: As long as my power strip has a ground/is plugged into a grounded outlet my esd strap is grounded, right?

[tikker]

16 minutes ago, DannyBoii said:

Yeah I do. I just don't have money to replace anything if I shock it to death xD The table is plastic and wood. I am paranoid!

 

EDIT: As long as my power strip has a ground/is plugged into a grounded outlet my esd strap is grounded, right?

Ah ok, so you didn't mean literally taking components out on carpet. Yes a grounded plug in a grounded power strip in a grounded outlet should be grounded. An ESD strap isn't so much about absolute ground really. It's to put you on the same potential as what you are working with.

[DannyBoii]

1 minute ago, tikker said:

Ah ok, so you didn't mean literally taking components out on carpet. Yes a grounded plug in a grounded power strip in a grounded outlet should be grounded. An ESD strap isn't so much about absolute ground really. It's to put you on the same potential as what you are working with.

Know any relevant tutorials I should read?

[Helpful Tech Witch]

22 minutes ago, DannyBoii said:

Yeah I do. I just don't have money to replace anything if I shock it to death xD The table is plastic and wood. I am paranoid!

 

EDIT: As long as my power strip has a ground/is plugged into a grounded outlet my esd strap is grounded, right?

It's really hard to kill compontes with esd.

It's still hard if you are trying to (see ltt vid)

 

[DannyBoii]

26 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

It's really hard to kill compontes with esd.

It's still hard if you are trying to (see ltt vid)

 

Figured I'd show the video for informative purposes!