Re: Carpet?

Charles,

This is a bit off topic, but I'm sure someone here has opinions to share...

I'm looking for carpeting for the area outside of a machine room that won't cause the "shuffle your feet and shock yourself" phenomenon. I noticed most datacenters I've seen are carpeted up to the entrance without any ESD problems. Is there special "anti-ESD" carpet? Where might I find it?

There is some UK folklore that if you rub fairy liquid (though I guess any washing-up liquid will do) into carpet-tiles they lose the above attribute. Alternatively you can get carpet tiles which are conductive for this purpose (I think they have small amounts of metalized fibres woven in). Don't know where from. -- Alex Bligh GX Networks (formerly Xara Networks)