[Gdeaver]

This is winter and many commercial buildings do not have humidification as part of there HVAC system. Shame on them. If those who are in the northern part of the country have noticed we have a large arctic air mass sitting on us. With out active humidification the relative humidity in your building may be < 10%. If you could get the RH up to 30 - 40% static would not be an issue. Hopefully at the spring competitions static will not be as bad. All though we are building big Van degraph generators. Back in December i took a discharge from the 2008 robot that left my arm numb for about 3 hours.
It takes allot of engineering to protect electronics from that kind of potential.