Stephen Stuart wrote:
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?
Yes. Searching AltaVista for "anti-static carpet" (without the quotes) will produce results of which the following is in the first ten matches:
http://accessfloor.com/top/carpet/default.html
I once recommended anti-static carpet for a machine room, and I was very happy with the way it turned out. I might be able to dig up the name of the supplier if you contact me off-line.
Stephen
This stuff is expensive. Most of anti-static carpet fabric will have wire threaded through it and a drain wire attached that you should ground. It may be far easier to pick up a grounded chair mat that you can place at the table. Any used office supply place should have them. Tim -- Snail: Tim Pozar / LNS / 1978 45th Ave / San Francisco CA 94116 / USA POTS: +1 415 665 3790 Radio: KC6GNJ / KAE6247 "It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word." - Andrew Jackson "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite." -- Bertrand Russell