We had a client with a Niles multiroom audio system that would
completely reboot whenever one particular user tried to touch a
keypad. It was definitely static electricity. She either wore
extremely conductive shoes or was a human capacitor. In any case she
was the only user who had this problem. Never found out what the final
solution was. She was the client's personal assistant... maybe they
fired her! :\

--- In Crestron@yahoogroups.com, "Matt" <mjrtoo@...> wrote:
>
> How many of you have experienced equipment loss from static
> electricity? Personally, I have never had that happen. It's pretty
> dry in Minnesota in the winter and a good 1/4" static discharge to
> something has never caused issues in my experience...even directly to
> the biometric scanner on my computer or a TPMC-8x.
>
> wrote:
> >
> > Man, I miss Park City.
> >
> > With respect to the answers you've already received, how are you
> > expected to keep the clients from zapping out the equipment?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Jon Waldrip <jonwaldrip@> wrote:
> > > I am working on a fairly large system in Park City, UT right now.
> The air
> > > here is really dry and I shock everything I touch with static
> electricity,
> > > including Crestron lighting keypads and in wall touch panels. I
> normally
> > > work in more humid parts of the county and have never really
> experienced
> > > this amount of static electricity before. Has anyone had problems
> with
> > > devices being damaged from a situation like this or know of any
> way to
> > > prevent damage from all the little shocks?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jon
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > >
> > >
> >
>