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Old Oct 15, 2012, 01:36 PM   #37
Derek12
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Originally Posted by Frag Maniac View Post
The vacuums ruining PCs paranoia is so blown out of proportion.

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It's real as the own life. I've destroyed a motherboard by that. It was fine before. I didn't touched anything more during the operation. Took the correct ESD procedures. So I know that it's not a myth nor paranoia.

Static is also caused by the powerful air flowing through the hose, not only the motor nor the grounding. A small battery powered one is more suitable besides don't having mains connection and shorter hose is less powerful = less ESD than a regular mains one.

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