Riding my bike & ESD............

[Dennis]

I was riding my bike along a river side boardwalk that had continuous
plastic decking & I noticed when I put my hand near the brake levers I'd get
a really decent ESD zap.

I was listening to AM radio, the decking his held to the underlying wooden
structure using what looks like stainless screws at ~4" intervals.

As the bike tyre runs over the screw heads it seems to discharge the charge
making a nice little 'tuck' noise in my earphones as each screw is passed.

I thought it was kind of neat.

 

[Metro]

"Dennis" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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I was riding my bike along a river side boardwalk that had continuous
plastic decking & I noticed when I put my hand near the brake levers I'd
get a really decent ESD zap.

I was listening to AM radio, the decking his held to the underlying wooden
structure using what looks like stainless screws at ~4" intervals.

As the bike tyre runs over the screw heads it seems to discharge the
charge making a nice little 'tuck' noise in my earphones as each screw is
passed.

I thought it was kind of neat.


Just think you could use it to calculate your speed.......

 

[Dennis]

"Metro" <stand@attention> wrote in message
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"Dennis" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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I was riding my bike along a river side boardwalk that had continuous
plastic decking & I noticed when I put my hand near the brake levers I'd
get a really decent ESD zap.

I was listening to AM radio, the decking his held to the underlying
wooden structure using what looks like stainless screws at ~4" intervals.

As the bike tyre runs over the screw heads it seems to discharge the
charge making a nice little 'tuck' noise in my earphones as each screw is
passed.

I thought it was kind of neat.


Just think you could use it to calculate your speed.......

A PIC perhaps?