ESD STRAPS HELP

[Leoram425]

Hi I’m building my first pc and I’ve got everything ready but I’ve notived one problem. I have no idea where to attach my ESD strap. I know you can attach it to your psu and that you need to have your pay connected to the wall but not turned on, however I’m pretty sure my whole entire psu is painted! Same with my case it’s painted and I can’t really find any real places to clip the thing. So where do I clip it? And can you clip it to a case and does the case need to be grounded also via installing the pay and connecting it to an outlet?

[Tabs]

4 minutes ago, Leoram425 said:

Hi I’m building my first pc and I’ve got everything ready but I’ve notived one problem. I have no idea where to attach my ESD strap. I know you can attach it to your psu and that you need to have your pay connected to the wall but not turned on, however I’m pretty sure my whole entire psu is painted! Same with my case it’s painted and I can’t really find any real places to clip the thing. So where do I clip it? And can you clip it to a case and does the case need to be grounded also via installing the pay and connecting it to an outlet?

Connect it to any grounded source. In the UK, all of our wall-mounted radiators are earthed (grounded) so you could clip it to one of those if you like.

 

Realistically though, if you ground yourself before beginning work, and don't go around generating static in your body whilst working with your build, you shouldn't need the strap.

 

Examples of what *not* to do during the build would be: rubbing your feet on carpets, petting cats, playing with balloons and clothing, etc.

[Damascus]

Put a bare screw in the psu an clip to that

[jet224presents]

to be honest i have recently done my first build without a esd strap. i dont think you need one there is minimal risk unless your wearing 100% cotton and rubbing your socks against the carpet i think you'll be fine. i did it in light clothing on a concrete basement no static going to be created there but what i did do was touch the power supply ever so often to make sure i had no charge. 

[Damascus]

@jet224presents yuup, over the past year I've handled something like $6k total worth of pc parts and not one fried.  No rad but I do all my work in a basement 

 

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[jet224presents]

2 minutes ago, Damascus said:

@jet224presents yuup, over the past year I've handled something like 6k total worth of pc parts and not one fried.  No rad but I do all my work in a basement 

 

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i built it in the basement but proceeded to add the gpu later on, on carpet flooring but remembering the GPU has a back plate (grounded) and the fans in front are all plastic so not much to worry about.