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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
Dry air, carpet, and electronics are not a good combination. I think your best remediation will be using an anti-static mat to cover the carpet. Wrist straps will help a lot, but I am confident that they will not always be used when appropriate.
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I'm sure we differ in opinions, but I've always felt that any piece of consumer electronic that can be permanently destroyed by ESD is, to put it bluntly, crap. Also, odds are not many teams even have ESD mats and wrist straps and even fewer have them connected correctly. A product that is designed to be put on FRC robots should take carpet, dry air, high school students, heck mentors, into consideration. It's pretty inexcusable for a product used in this environment to be affected, especially permanently, by ESD.