I always thought you shouldn't handle components on the connector side, or touch the actual components on PCBs. Am i overzealous?
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I've been touching RAM on the component connectors for 30 years. We good. Make sure your hands aren't dirty and oily. You'll be okay.
Weird fetish but okay. Thanks.
I'm going to pull out a RAM stick, lick it, and put it back in like a naughty boy.
I didn't expect this when googling for something funny.
It's good to avoid touching but it's only if you have a static charge in you that it will shock the thing.. so, ya it's not that big a deal for me as I'm not usually statically charged it seems (climate?) 🤙
once upon a time in computer land, people had computer labs with wool carpets, and they wore polyurethane sole shoes and polyester clothing, and they did have many incidents of destroying components via the inevitable static discharge when they picked up said item and then moved the item towards the earthed computer chassis.
two things help, don't install items into an earthed pc case and two, if you ever get static shocks in a given environment, before you pick up electronic items such as these, first touch the case to make sure you won't make the item the conduit for your discharge. euww, icky!
> first touch the case to make sure you won't make the item the conduit for your discharge.
I always did this, no problems