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Static Electricity Build up on my Cab making it go CRAZY!
grantspain:
you have done a really good job on the cab btw
i know this is not a fix but what about installing a monitor glass,maybe bronzed-this would probably stop your static problem
this is a bit of a silly question but if you don't touch the monitor do you still have problems
rdowdy95:
I would love to put some monitor glass in front, but there is no room. The TV comes out to the edge of the monitor shelf. I could prolly put some small L brackets on the bottom of the shelf and do it that way. It would also be a hard cut because the left side is not totally vertical it is barely off kind of sloping inward at the top. Not noticeable, but hard to trim the glass to make it fit.
When I touched the monitor it did the trick. Felt like a lot of static. But the weird part was when I had just the TV on (set on the S-Video input), it didn't really show those little white lines on the screen. When the whole thing is on it got more static-ey. Also first time I notice it, I was playing street fighter 2 practicing those dragon punches, and I moved over to the right side to insert credit for P2 then that is when it went haywire. I definately felt a little static shock from the trackball, and that is when it happened the first time.
Last night when I was waving my hands on the TV glass static was going crazy. I had my left hand on the glass, and my right hand was on the controls. Do you think that could of been enough for the static to pass through my body to my right hand where my hands were on the controls?
Tonight I will wipe down the screen before I play, and see if it happens again.
Last night I wiped the TV off real good. After all the static-ey times I had then played shocktroopers. I waved my hand in front of the TV and all was good. I think what is happening is all the static buildup on the TV and me touching the screen some how the static is effect the USB trackball (not earth grounded yet), and that is causing the computer to get screwed up with USB devices and such.
My Keywiz is Ps/2 though and it messes up as well. The only resonse I get is holding down the power button to shut the system down, and when I do move the trackball the mouse cursor lags like crazy. This is during the times when the static strife is making my computer beep like crazy. First there is the USB device found beeps, then normal computer style beeps.
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: rdowdy95 on September 25, 2007, 06:47:42 pm ---Do you think that could of been enough for the static to pass through my body to my right hand where my hands were on the controls?
--- End quote ---
YES!! The static is trying to find its way to earth... It will take the shortest route it can find. If you touch the screen and your controls it will most certainly travel through you to try and ground out on your controls which are connected to your PC, via the keywiz. Then it tavels to the ground on your PC's power supply. Freaking out the Keywiz and your PC in the process. This could cause serious damage to both of them.
Static is several thousand volts... at very low ampage. In the case of a monitor or TV about 25,000 Volts. So yes it will travel through you.
There is one thing you could try.......
Form a loop of bare copper wire.... run that right around the edge of your screen. In contact with the screen surface. Tape it on there if you have to. Connect that loop to the earth tag... This might help to prevent the excessive static build up your are suffering from as it will help to drain the static away from the screen.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
rdowdy95:
I was typing a bunch then submitted to find my pic was too big. DAMN IT! Hit back and all the #($# I wrote was gone. POS!!!!
rdowdy95:
Good info Fozzy I will try that if I can't get anything else to work.
Fozzy when I turn the TV on by itself I have hardly no static buildup, but when I turn everything else on that is when the static builds up.
I also found an extra locknut laying in the Control Panel box. Would that cause this mess to happen? I did take it out of there. Don't know why I threw the extra in there.
Below is a pic of my setup.
Also say if I want to extend the earth wire on my Happ Trackball. Do any of you know what gauge that is? I am thinking 18 Awg? I am not sure though. Also for heatshrink tubing could I use a hot blow hair dryer or do I need to try to find a heat gun? Should I solder or just twist and use electric tape around the connections of the wires?
Does anyone here use a TV as there Arcade monitor???? Anyone else have this problem?
Also is there anything else I can do like clean the glass of the TV screen. Would that help against the static. I still don't understand that 7 months the thing has been workin great now I get static when I touch the screen.
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