Comment by bob1029
6 months ago
As the clothes get dryer they become less conductive. Even if there was a perfect path to ground, the charge wouldn't be able to get there across the material itself.
6 months ago
As the clothes get dryer they become less conductive. Even if there was a perfect path to ground, the charge wouldn't be able to get there across the material itself.
That can't be the whole story though. You can feel the static charge from the clothes on your hand when you reach into the dryer a good 6-12" before you even make contact with the clothes.
We have the ability to sense these electric fields way before they reach breakdown potentials.