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Apr 28, 2016 at 17:31 vote accept Dogus Ural
Apr 27, 2016 at 14:35 history edited Wouter van Ooijen CC BY-SA 3.0
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Apr 27, 2016 at 11:58 comment added Neil_UK The capacitor stuff is not an analogy, it's real. The charge stored in the capacitance of you with respect to ground is the charge that can rush out and kill ICs if you touch their pins, or can rush out and tweak your finger tip if you touch a filing cabinet. Leaking out (relatively) slowly through a 1Mohm resistor or more to ground is a much nicer process for all involved.
S Apr 27, 2016 at 11:52 history suggested CHendrix CC BY-SA 3.0
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Apr 27, 2016 at 11:33 comment added Henk Langeveld ... and the high resistance in the wristband (and the connection from mat to earth) are there to protect you from high currents.
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Apr 27, 2016 at 11:30 comment added JRE The antistatic mat is there to protect the circuit from you.
Apr 27, 2016 at 11:29 comment added Dogus Ural i didnt get the capacitor analogy, is antistatic mat supposed to protect me or the circuit ?
Apr 27, 2016 at 11:25 history edited Wouter van Ooijen CC BY-SA 3.0
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Apr 27, 2016 at 10:21 history edited Wouter van Ooijen CC BY-SA 3.0
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Apr 27, 2016 at 9:06 history answered Wouter van Ooijen CC BY-SA 3.0