{"id":30,"date":"2019-07-08T12:49:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T12:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/?p=30"},"modified":"2019-08-02T12:50:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T12:50:57","slug":"static-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/2019\/07\/08\/static-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"Static Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re working with electronics, the exposure to electrostatic energy can make them less reliable. TekTone makes nurse call systems, which people use to call for help in healthcare facilities, and it&#8217;s important that the devices are reliable. At TekTone, they use a static electricity generator to test new prototypes, and they also wear protective gear to reduce static that&#8217;s created by people&#8217;s movement.<\/p>\n<p>First, We all wear these jackets:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/2019\/07\/IMG_0223-e1562590013242-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/2019\/07\/IMG_0223-e1562590013242-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/2019\/07\/IMG_0223-e1562590013242-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Second, this strap connects your socks or feet to the ground so electricity is dissipated into the earth:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31\" src=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/2019\/07\/IMG_0224-e1562589792124-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/2019\/07\/IMG_0224-e1562589792124-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/2019\/07\/IMG_0224-e1562589792124-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Third, when folks are working with the electronics, they ground themselves into the work table so their static runs to the table to dissipate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33\" src=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/2019\/07\/IMG_0225-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/2019\/07\/IMG_0225-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/2019\/07\/IMG_0225-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/335\/2019\/07\/IMG_0225-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re working with electronics, the exposure to electrostatic energy can make them less reliable. TekTone makes nurse call systems, which people use to call for help in healthcare facilities, and it&#8217;s important that the devices are reliable. At TekTone,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2020-aclapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}