PC Build Tips: Ways To Ground Yourself! (With & Without Anti-Static Wrist Band)

I'm not an electrician or an expert, this is a quick video on how I learned to Ground myself when building a PC, with and without an Anti-static Wrist Strap. Above are links that can be used to purchase the item seen or something else recommended in the video and they also help keep the channel going financially & it doesn't cost you anything extra!

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[UndergroundTech]

I'm not an electrician or an expert, this is a quick video on how I learned to Ground myself when building a PC, with and without an Anti-static Wrist Strap.

[andrewsrenson]

Straight to the point...without bs 👍
* others would have given a history of the guy that invented the wrist strap and excerpts of his favorite poetry

[jediael]

Scared about building my pc and static ill just build my computer naked

[broxxad]

thanks for the short informative video without all the boring useless foreplay.

[a-bloke-named-chris]

Building my first pc and have been stressing about this. Thanks for being fast and informative man.

[John--]

Thanks for this. When I Googled 'how to ground yourself' it brought up a bunch of bullshit become one with the earth techniques.

[megapet]

Who's here after watching the LTT video with electroboom? :D

[Ali]

Dad: You are grounded!
Me: yey, now I can build a PC!

[squakers]

I love that it is straight to the point and doesn't make it seem like a doomsday nightmare.

[mclovin]

I just yell at my mom and that seems to be more of an efficient way to get grounded.

Basically think about when you’ve experienced ESD intentionally or otherwise. You can only accumulate charge via the triboelectric effect, so if you aren’t rubbing anything, you don’t build up charge. You can look up a table of triboelectric coefficients to see what material pairings you especially need to worry about. Have your components on top of a non-conductive surface, wood or plastic table both work. Then either don’t rub anything st all or if you are rubbing things a bit, periodically discharge. You don’t even need to be connected to a proper ground to discharge sufficiently, you’ve probably experienced being zapped touching a door handle. Touching a large piece of bare metal will work pretty well. It will saturate if you use it too much before the particles in the air have time to carry away the charge

[mmm-licv]

I'm legit doing my first build tommorrow and this rly helped.Im having a plugged in power supply while having an anti static strap connected to it while wearing underwear only.. lmao just gonna be extra cautious

[jx]

Nobody of the tech channels uses grounding. Like Linus. He never heard of it but handles $10k graphic cards.
My dad is a tech guy who knows his stuff. He actually helped building hardware for satellites back in the days. He said the problem isn't that you will brick your hardware because that does only happen with a very slim chance. The problem is (and i'm recounting this from memory so it might not be exactly right) that those small electrical discharges can cause errors on chips which you won't even notice. Some resistance on some tiny transistor inside the chip becomes slightly different than before. The pc runs fine now because it never uses that transistor on the edge of the cpu or it's not that important but sometimes it does and the pc crashes and you will never find the error. Something like that. So it causes micro-errors on chips and all those tech guys actually have very high-end, very expensive and slightly faulty hardware.


That's why you always should ground yourself.

[rokelle_]

Oh lord, I've actually never, ever made an effort to ground myself before building my PCs. I actually never thought about it until I was reading on how to upgrade my PS5s storage and Sony recommends doing this before opening it up at all. I wonder if them mentioning it is just them being overly cautious or if someone actually did fry their system with static electricity and they sued or tried to sue for it.

[andreas]

Very straight forward, thank you.
could you make a video about common pc building mistakes?

[mayravixx]

Recently moved into a new place with carpet (old one didn't have carpet so I built mine without ever worrying about it) and I've been wanting to install new case fans for quite some time since I only have one working one and it doesn't do a whole lot to dissipate heat at all, so this video's pretty helpful. I haven't noticed any static shocks when touching anything since moving in so I'd say I'm on the safe side. Might also be helpful that the bottoms of my slippers are rubber.

[qreuesant-]

Trying out building a new PC, glad this was around very quick and informative. Thankfully the area where i'm building my PC is protected from my carpeted floor o.0

[christoskondilis]

I actually damaged my mobo with static electrisity TWICE!!! So i guess i need that antistatic wrist band

[Tenshi-Dragon]

I know this is 7 yrs old but 7 yrs later im one of the many people paranoid about causing ESD to EXPENSIVE parts! I appreciate how fast and short this explanation was and i'm gonna do the psu wrist strap method cus i aint risking it !

[ohaiderepeeps]

Amazing! This guy taught me more than what I learned in school for free!!