[20540] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Carpet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Pozar)
Fri Oct 16 11:39:01 1998
From: Tim Pozar <pozar@lns.com>
To: stuart@tech.org (Stephen Stuart)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 17:32:03 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: spork@inch.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199810152352.QAA26435@center.tech.org> from "Stephen Stuart" at Oct 15, 98 04:52:51 pm
Stephen Stuart wrote:
> > I'm looking for carpeting for the area outside of a machine room that
> > won't cause the "shuffle your feet and shock yourself" phenomenon. I
> > noticed most datacenters I've seen are carpeted up to the entrance without
> > any ESD problems. Is there special "anti-ESD" carpet? Where might I find
> > it?
>
> Yes. Searching AltaVista for "anti-static carpet" (without the quotes)
> will produce results of which the following is in the first ten matches:
>
> http://accessfloor.com/top/carpet/default.html
>
> I once recommended anti-static carpet for a machine room, and I was
> very happy with the way it turned out. I might be able to dig up the
> name of the supplier if you contact me off-line.
>
> Stephen
This stuff is expensive. Most of anti-static carpet fabric will have
wire threaded through it and a drain wire attached that you should ground.
It may be far easier to pick up a grounded chair mat that you can place
at the table. Any used office supply place should have them.
Tim
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