{"id":4248,"date":"2016-01-27T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/01\/27\/humidity-data-and-the-zapping-of-my-lcd-display\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:48:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:48:54","slug":"humidity-data-and-the-zapping-of-my-lcd-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/01\/27\/humidity-data-and-the-zapping-of-my-lcd-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Humidity Data and the Zapping of my LCD Display"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sometimes the Radio Gods conspire against you. Check out the chart above. It shows relative humidity at my location. I zapped my LCD display right around 2000 UTC on January 25, 2016. That poor little LCD didn’t stand a chance \ud83d\ude41 <\/b>

<\/b> Right now relative humidity here is 79%. No sparks now! <\/b>

<\/b> I like the solution (!) proposed by Brendan, EI6IZ: <\/b>

<\/b> You can get an anti-static spray designed to treat carpet, upholstered furniture etc. This is a sensible thing to do if one tinkers with electronics and for the average hamshack a bottle will last for many years as it only needs to be applied lightly and infrequently.
For example <\/b>http:\/\/ie.rs-online.com\/web\/p\/esd-safe-clean-room-treatments-lotions-dispensers\/0182893\/ <\/b><\/a>For cheapskates however, diluted fabric softener sprayed on the carpet and chair will work well for at least a few months but will require much more frequent application than the ‘proper stuff’. <\/b><\/i> <\/p>\n

I give my car seat an occasional squirt in dry summers to stop the ‘zap’ when getting out on a dry day.<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n


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Sometimes the Radio Gods conspire against you. Check out the chart above. It shows relative humidity at my location. I zapped my LCD display right around 2000 UTC on January 25, 2016. That poor little LCD didn’t stand a chance \ud83d\ude41 Right now relative humidity here is 79%. No sparks now! I like the solution … Continue reading “Humidity Data and the Zapping of my LCD Display”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-static-electricity","category-troubleshooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4251,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions\/4251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}