Electrostatic Discharge

[rsegrest]

Originally Posted by Don Rotolo

To help with ESD, hang some metal braid (or stranded wire with the end fanned out) from the frame until it touches the carpet a little. This provides a discharge path.

I Read in another post that having something brushing the ground would be considered illegal as well. I haven't seen anything in the manual about this directly being legal or illegal. Thoughts?

[J_Beth]

Originally Posted by rsegrest

I Read in another post that having something brushing the ground would be considered illegal as well. I haven't seen anything in the manual about this directly being legal or illegal. Thoughts?

As long as it does not damage the carpet there should not be a problem with it. We use a very fine chain that was hung from the bottom of the robot and just touched the floor last year to help us solve this problem when we had the low friction wheels.