Thanks all. You've all been an immense help. You've given me enough to go on.

One thing I missed, until a second reading, was that ericgibbs' design for an aluminium benchtop anti-static mat makes it unnecessary to buy a flooring anti-static mat. I'll ground my wrist wire and the aluminium benchtop wire to the screw that holds an electrical outlet cover in place. Usually, here is the US of A, they're earthed.

Been a while since I've met a hedgehog.... Resistors will have to serve.

 

hi nyoo.
Promise to fit a 470K or 1M0 resistor in series with any earthed mat/iron or wrist wire and the ground connection. OR else.

Lets know how the hedgehog works out, use a fibre tip pen to mark out areas on your foil, that identify the passive component values, it saves a lot of during assembly if you preload the marked areas with the components.

The foil mat is handy for your precut wire links/jumpers.

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