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I have this jacket which always charges me with static electricity when I take it off. So I always get an electro-shock when I touch something metallic afterwards (or water that is fun :-)). The question is what can you do so that you decharge slowly without shock?

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The question is what can you do so that you decharge slowly without shock?
Slowly? Get a resistor of many megaohms! :lol:

 

Actually, it usually doesn't need to be slow, it's enough for it to be on a large skin surface right from the start. If I'm expecting the nasty spark, I grasp a key or something and touch something grounded with it. If you press enough skin on the metal before it touches the other object you don't feel the discharge.

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But a resistor would be cool, sounds like a good marketing idea
Patent it! You'll make a fortune man!

:D

Don't worry, I won't challenge your patent by claiming paternity...:P

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