[SOLVED] Ground yourself with painted case and PSU?

emirkir

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My case and PSU are painted, and I have an ESD wrist strap to ground myself.
Where do I put the alligator-clip? (I'm not going to put the clip in the wall socket for safety reasons).
All screws and everything are painted, exept some thumb-screws on the case, will those work?
The thumb-screws are located beside the GPU-bracket in the case.
Or can I put a paperclip in the two middle female molex-connectors on my PSU that's grounded and connect the alligator-clip to the paperclip, is that safe/will that work?

Thanks in advance.
 
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Ralston18

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Solution
You could plug the power cord into the PSU and touch the ground terminal on the plug part that normally goes into the wall.

That will do it.

Or touch the ground prong on the PSU.

The screws as well probably......but the two things I mentioned are pretty much fail safe.