Re: Static discharge

["David W. Palmer" <dpalmer@post.its.mcw.edu>]

"Dealing with Static", is a little manual from GE that arrive in our 
department with one of our gamma cameras. It has the following table:

					Most		Highest
					Common		Reading
					Reading
Charge accumulated on a person
walking across a carpet			12,000 volts	39,000 volts

Charge accumulated on a person
walking across vinyl tile floor		4,000 volts	13,000 volts

Hope this is of help!

 On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, Gary Masters 
wrote:

> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 17:14:36 -0600
> From: Gary Masters <gmasters@csn.net>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: Static discharge
> 
> Does anyone have the foggiest idea how great a static charge can be
> developed by a person?
> 
> I ask this because we had an individual discharge his static to a PCM-2
> and render it nonfunctional (he fried a board in it).  Our Radiation
> Protection Manager wants to know this before he will allow us to place the
> PCM-2s back in service.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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