Why em i always conducting static electricity?
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Static electricity is caused by friction. When the air is dry like in winter there is more friction.
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As you are building a computer, ESD sensitive parts can get damaged.  You can buy an ESD wrist strap and hook it to the AC outlets center screw (between the two plugs).  This will let the static electricity discharge through ground and not hurt your components.
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Current burns, voltage jerks the muscles.  Too much current, you're toast.  Too much voltage, your heart stops.\n\nStatic built up from rubbing your socks on the carpet probably won't kill you.\n\nSeveral years back, in the wintertime, there were some news reports of people whose car blew up at the gas pumps.  Supposedly it was due to static electricity.\n\nIt's rare to get "shocked" outside when getting in or out of one's car or touching it or whatever but it does happen.  I remember a couple times in the past 5 years when it happened to me. A tiny percentage of times I have done that but way more than zero.\n\nSo, I guess the combination of a spark and being by your open gas tank could kills you, indirectly.\n\nTaking an extreme counter-example, there was a girl struck by lightening at the WHFS alternative rock festival in DC a few years ago. Apparently it knocked her a few feet from where she was standing.  But, it didn't kill her.  She was lucky.\n\nStatic charges build up more easily in wintertime. The air is dryer.  Something about the air molecules is different when there is less moisture.  I forget what, but you have probably noticed more "static" shocks in winter than any other time of year, unless you live in a really cold, dry place.\n\nA three inch spark seems pretty far.\n\nIn high school physics class, they said that each inch that a spark travelled off a sphere through the air indicated 10,000 volts.  I think it was 10,000.  Well, you're not a sphere and you are probably not touching one but that still seems like a lot.\n\nI used to get shocks of half or three quarters of an inch  when touching the corners of walls at the house I grew up in all the time.  That was really nothing.  I barely felt it.  It was just a surprise to feel it, and also to see the spark leap between the wall and your finger.\n\nModern buildings have grounding wires on all the outlets and stuff like that, to prevent electrical problems.  Not sure what really old buildings are like.\n\nIf you are wearing a sweater or wool clothing, that could increase the amount of static charge you build up.  There are all kinds of things that could do it.\n\nIf it happens on warm, humid days when you are not wearing any wool or sweaters, that would really be strange.  If not, maybe it is what you are wearing or the atmosphere that is mostly responsible.\n\nAlso, carpet is a big factor.\n\nFeeling it hours later, that's freaky. That never happened to me.
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Your concept of the linesman is correct, however, being immersed in a body of water is dangerous.  Lightning carries a far greater potential than that of what the linesman faces.  True, there is no conduction of current to ground, but the copter and the line must be equalized before contact can be made.  This is because of the state of "STATIC ELECTRICITY".  Energy that is "Static" is not moving.  Nevertheless, when it comes in contact with another object, one who's energy level is at a different potential, the energy no longer remains static.  The sudden rush of current will be felt.  That's why when you cross the rug and grab the door knob you get a shock.  You have a significantly higher potential than the door knob and when you touch it there is a rush of energy trying to equalize the differences.\n\nBeing in a pool at essentially zero volts and a crack of lightning hits close by, the ground and the water in the pool will charge up before dissipating the lightning strike, possibly leaving you dead.  Wouldn't that ruin your day?\n\nDuring lightning storms stay out of the pool or the tub, do not be running the sink and stay off the phone (cordless phones do not apply in this case as there is no direct wiring to the outside world).  There have been documented cases where persons on the phone have been struck in the head by lightning, again it's due to that equalization of energy levels thing.\n\nHey, even if everyone is wrong, wanna risk your life?  You could die in a tub if someone dropped something electrical in the water.  True, your assumption is that water conducts better than the human body, but that is a wrong assumption.  Pure water is an insulator.  It's the impurity in water that makes it conduct.  Our bodies are actually much better conductors of electricity.  Don't believe me?  Ask someone like an electric shop teacher.\n\nI hesitate to give you a test to try because of the danger of electrocution, but if I were at your house I could demonstrate in a matter of seconds that what I am saying is true.  But for the sake of not causing someone to try a potentially dangerous experiment I'll not be specific.\n\nHowever, if you must know, e-mail me and we can chat.  When I am confident of your ability to conduct the test safely then I will tell you how to do this.
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When you go to touch something metallic (or the kids, LOL), hold a key or some other metallic object in your hand, and touch the car door, fridge, whatever, with the key instead of your hand.  You'll still feel a shock, but it's only about half as bad, (I guess) because you're allowing the current to flow through a larger area of your hand, rather than the little "lightning bolt" attacking one little spot on your hand.  I discovered that by accident many years ago; probably as I went to unlock my car door.\n\nAlso, you can reduce the static electricity generation by using a humidifier in the dry months.
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Static can be a serious nuisance in the processing of analog recording media, because it can attract dust to sensitive materials. In the case of photography, dust accumulating on lenses and photographic plates degrades the resulting picture. Dust also permanently damages vinyl records because it can be embedded into the grooves as the stylus passes over. In both cases, several approaches exist to combat such dust deposition. Some brushes, particularly those with carbon fiber bristles, are advertised as possessing anti-static properties. Also available are handheld static guns which shoot streams of ions to discharge static on records and lenses. Static electricity is a class of phenomena involving objects with a net charge; typically referring to charged objects with voltages of sufficient magnitude to produce visible attraction, repulsion, and sparks.\n\nNatural electrostatic phenomena are most familiar as an occasional annoyance in seasons of low humidity, but can be destructive and harmful in some situations (e.g. electronics manufacturing.) When working in direct contact with integrated circuit electronics (especially delicate MOSFETs), or in the presence of flammable gas, care must be taken to avoid accumulating and discharging a static charge.\n\nNote that the presence of electric current does not detract from the electrostatic forces nor from the sparking, from the corona discharge, or other phenomena. Both phenomena can exist simultaneously in the same system.
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It's static electricity from your shoes.
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You are developing an electostatic charge through friction with the clothes you are wearing or things you touch, this is particularly common in periods of low humidity or you are wearing insulated shoes, or walking on an insulated floor, were normal discharge is not possible.
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Static electricity builds up along the surface of the balloon when friction is applied, causing an electrical charge. This is the same phenomenon that occurs when you walk across a carpeted floor then touch a door handle, or another person and get shocked.
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None of them, coz a magnetic field does not affect static charges.\n\nUnless that was the answer you were looking for, I get a feeling something is amiss in the question.
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It is called static electric.
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Static charge is deposited on the surface of the CRT during the operation of the TV. So your tester glows because of the electrostatic potential existing between your hand and the surface of the CRT. \n\nThe voltage, and the current resulting through our body when we touch it are too weak to cause us any harm. All the same, you do notice your hair standing on end don't you?
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If this is a constant problem then buy a humidifier. Static electricity is less likely to happen if the air in your house is not so dry.
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Various things you do cause a build up of static potential about your body.  How effectively you can release this potential affects how much you zap things/people around you.  Every person's individual resistance to electric current is different.  This along with things like whether or not you are constantly grounded, thus discharging any built up static potential on your body, affect your "electrifying" personality. :P  This is why people employed in working with sensitive electronics use things like grounding wrist straps or ground mats, etc before and while working with the electronic components. The mats and straps help get rid of any static potential build up.\n\nYou're just lucky enough, like my oldest sister, to be able to pop someone else at will.  I always stay out of arm's reach of her in the static filled winter time.
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It meant the same thing as grounding yourself.  Your body is like a live battery and it can store charges (like a capacitor).  This charge caused static when you are in contact with espcially electronic devices like motherboard. The static discharging can reach a few thousand volts and could well destroy or burn small chipsets inside a motherboard, and rendered it useless.  \n\nYou should wear an antistatic wrist strap while handing PC boards.  This wrist strap will 'eat' the static charge in your body and discharge any static on the PC board.  It sells for about $2 at fry's electronic.\n\ngood luck
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keep it far from electrodomestics\n\n:> peace\n.
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A lot of static electricity in the air can cause "dry lightning".  I assume that is what happened.