HP Vizualize,Visualize b2000 Supplementary Manual page 10

Getting Started
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Precautions
Figure 1-1. ESD Precautions
Static Strap
Strap attached
to Bare Metal
• Wear a static strap to ensure that any accumulated electrostatic charge is discharged
from your body to ground. Attach the static-grounding wrist strap by following the
instructions on the package. Attach the sticky end of the wrist strap to bare metal on
the rear panel of the workstation. See Figure 1-1. on page 10.
• Connect all equipment together, including the static-free mat, static strap, clips
attached to the wrist strap, nodes, and peripheral units.
• Keep uninstalled printed circuit boards in their protective antistatic bags.
• Once you have removed printed circuit boards from their protective antistatic bags,
handle the printed circuit boards by their edges only.
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Antistatic Mat
Chapter 1