Hi, everyone! I hope it's the proper category.
I have an HP Pavillon Sleekbook 15 laptop and I have to clean the cooling fan and replace the thermal paste (since I've never done it the last 2 years, in fact it idles at 50°C). The problem is: the laptop was designed by a group of crazy monkeys and to do such a simple thing I have to literally pull EVERYTHING out of it, including the motherboard, the hard drive, et cetera.
Can you please tell me what should I do to avoid ESD damage?
I did some resarch and found out I should wear an antistatic wrist strap to ground me with the laptop (though nobody knows about that here in Italy and I don't know where to find it...), avoid wearing synthetics, rubbing my socks on the carpet and letting the cat dance on my head while I do the job.
I'll do the it on a painted wooden table, barefoot on a ceramic floor. Can I just place the components on the table while I'm at it, or should I place those somewhere else? I read many people place the components in antistatic bags but, again, I don't know where to find those here because, well, if I asked someone "do you have and antistatic bag?" they'd probably laugh at me. Any idea on how I can find such a thing? Or is there an alternative to it? Is it even necessary?
Thanks in advance! (and sorry for the bad english)
I have an HP Pavillon Sleekbook 15 laptop and I have to clean the cooling fan and replace the thermal paste (since I've never done it the last 2 years, in fact it idles at 50°C). The problem is: the laptop was designed by a group of crazy monkeys and to do such a simple thing I have to literally pull EVERYTHING out of it, including the motherboard, the hard drive, et cetera.
Can you please tell me what should I do to avoid ESD damage?
I did some resarch and found out I should wear an antistatic wrist strap to ground me with the laptop (though nobody knows about that here in Italy and I don't know where to find it...), avoid wearing synthetics, rubbing my socks on the carpet and letting the cat dance on my head while I do the job.
I'll do the it on a painted wooden table, barefoot on a ceramic floor. Can I just place the components on the table while I'm at it, or should I place those somewhere else? I read many people place the components in antistatic bags but, again, I don't know where to find those here because, well, if I asked someone "do you have and antistatic bag?" they'd probably laugh at me. Any idea on how I can find such a thing? Or is there an alternative to it? Is it even necessary?
Thanks in advance! (and sorry for the bad english)