Posted by denom on
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/shielding-a-computer-keyboard-mouse-tp1543473p1543548.html

I use 8 foot grounding rods. Actually the computer case is on a shelf. Ground currents are what I used to feel on my floor before i put all my electronic equipment above the floor and in faraday cages, etc. I have many ground rods at my home grounding many things. It is easier for me to ground things that way but I would "guess" it is okay to use the same ground rod toground more than one computer.
----- Original Message -----
From: culverpratt
To: [hidden email]
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 7:01 PM
Subject: [eSens] Re: shielding a computer / keyboard / mouse ?


wow, that is very interesting.
That sense of being electrocuted as you describe, seems familiar.

Oh, how long are the grounding rods that you put into the earth?

What are ground currents, by the way? You must have connected to
some really strong studs or something to be able to suspend all that
metal casing and a computer 3 feet above the ground -?

Do you think you will need individual grounding rods for each
computer or would connecting both to one do as well?

--Soula

--- In [hidden email], "denom" <denom@...> wrote:
>
> I have both of my computers grounded. On one I took a sheet of
metal that I got from the hardware store and made a case out of it.
I attached it to the wall about three feet above the ground to
prevent ground currents I grounded the metal case to a grounding
rod. The case is about ten feet from me and I use estensions for
the cables to the monitor. This one works best. The other computer
sits on top of some metallic cloth and it is grounded to an outlet
with a cord that only plugs into the outlets ground. I am going to
redo this one and ground it to a grounding rod instead. I can feel
a difference in the energy that comes from the computer that is
grounded to an outlet and the one that is grounded to the grounding
rod. I will no longer ground anything to ground outlets and
everything will be grounded to grounding rods. This is the
conclusion I came to when comparing the two recently when I grounded
the bed I was sleeping in. Grounding rods give a very comforting
kind of energy where as the outlets make me feel like I'm being
electrocuted.



   

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