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01-18-2008, 07:22 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: moraga
Posts: 136
M.O.C. #5044
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Static electricity
I get shocked a lot from static electricity.I am afraid to touch any metal in my unit.I'm wondering if I put a metal spike into the ground and a wire strap from the frame to the spike if I would be able to stop the shocks.I do have have a ground through the elect.system,but not all the metal in this thing is grounded.
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01-18-2008, 07:31 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Choctaw
Posts: 530
M.O.C. #6364
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Nope, you're the one with the static charge, not the reverse. The low humidity of winter is a major cause. When you move through the RV you brush up against different fabrics and surfaces building a charge of several thousand volts with respect to earth ground (yep, I said several thousand). There's no current in the charge therefore the term STATIC. If you add some humidity to your home you'll reduce the charge potentials.
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01-18-2008, 07:47 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Chester
Posts: 307
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Yes I agree, I work with grounding and if you tie that rig down with a ground rod you could be a Montana Lightning Rod. If it where summer time.
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01-18-2008, 08:23 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: McKinney
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Our technicians that worked around sensitive electronic components used to wear special electro-static discharge (ESD) straps of various kinds. One was a strap that fit on their shoes with another elastic strap from that that wrapped around their leg. It would discharge any static electricity into the floor without them ever knowing it. If it is really a problem you can't solve otherwise and really bothers you, you could try something like that.
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Riley, our Golden
2007 3075RL (recently sold, currently without)
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01-18-2008, 10:06 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Casa Grande
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When I worked in the computer room of a large hospital there was an anti static spray we used on the carpets. Possibly a computer store, commercial type, may have something like this....
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01-18-2008, 11:23 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Paola
Posts: 5,739
M.O.C. #4961
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Like was said above the anti static spray is the way to go. You can get it at places like ACE Hardware.
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Paola, Kansas
Montana 3735MK Legacy Edition
1200 watts of Solar
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01-18-2008, 01:31 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: moraga
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M.O.C. #5044
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Thank you 4 responding.
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01-18-2008, 04:11 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Haysville
Posts: 4,261
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Invest in a humidifier ... it'll help the woodwork at the same time. Happened (static electricity) every winter in my stick house until I installed a furnace mount humidifier.
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01-20-2008, 12:30 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location:
Posts: 163
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mudchief i know this has nothing to do with the problem here but i see you have a dome on your unit. i was wondering what kind it was and what kind of luck your having with it. i would think you have a digital hd tv just like mine. thanks for any information ahead of time.
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01-20-2008, 04:40 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Paola
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M.O.C. #4961
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Fla hobo I will send you a PM.
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Dennis & Linda Ward
Paola, Kansas
Montana 3735MK Legacy Edition
1200 watts of Solar
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01-20-2008, 06:31 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Hesperia
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M.O.C. #7787
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Quote:
quote:Originally posted by exav8tr
When I worked in the computer room of a large hospital there was an anti static spray we used on the carpets. Possibly a computer store, commercial type, may have something like this....
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Same thing happens in our new Monty,I don't even have to touch anything just scuff across the carpet will do it.
Jack
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01-20-2008, 01:46 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Milwaukie
Posts: 388
M.O.C. #6266
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The downside to anti-static spray is it leaves a film on everything and attracts dirt. When I serviced proof machines for the bank we used it a lot and it would leave a nasty build up.
Bob
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