Insignia™ - Anti-Static Wrist Band - Black

Q: What do I do with it? Help us dumb people please!

A: You put the band around your wrist and the alligator clip you place somewhere on the metal case of the computer. It is used to discharge static electricity when touching small computer parts or chips, as small amounts of electricity can be detrimental to computer component.

Q: What do I do with it? It came with no directions. Help us dumb people please!

A: It's name,..."Anti-Static Wrist Band" plus how the product looks implies it's use. Wrist band. To use it as a wrist band open it up by pulling the free end of the velcro grippers apart and slide over one wrist. I have large hands so I had to open it up all the way getting the wrist band out of the keeper slot, then place the band on a table with the button connector facing away from me, place wrist on the band and pull the two ends together. Finally pushing the band through the slot and pushing the velcro connectors together to hold it in place on my wrist. Then I snapped the button connector for the extendable cord on to it. While adding on or removing components from a computer, it is a good idea for your body to have the same electric charge as the computer and components you are working on. Something difficult to do working on a table over a carpeted floor as static electricity builds up with your motion, feet on the floor or even your seat on a chair. It is easier to work over a bare wood or a tiled floor where static electricity build up is a less of a problem. (But Holy Cow! ***Explanation.*** We are working on a piece of equipment that uses electricity for it's function. And we are either removing or adding on components to it. To guarantee your work, all the time and effort, plus all the expensive parts that have to function with all the other parts in the computer, I think it is a good idea to have everything grounded properly...yourself to the metal of your computer and the parts you handle also grounded with you before you remove components from it to place in protected static proof bags for storage. And have components properly grounded to you and the computer frame before you place component parts into your computer. Hehe. That way, all the parts in the computer have the same electrical charge, or rather share no different electrical charge at all. And when you turn the computer on, everything should work properly, every part having the same electric charge...the electrical current flowing from component to component,...on switch through the processor, RAM memory, hard disk, video card and all the other parts, keyboard, mouse, to computer monitor or even a Virtual Reality head piece. If...should one component have an opposite electrical charge than all the other components, the computer may not start or may have an electrical short or perhaps an catastrophe of an electrical nature...) And to guarantee you are grounded to the computer metal framework, and that everything you handle and add to it become grounded to the computer framework...you have to be in constant contact with the computer's metal parts. So put the wrist band on like an old style wristwatch. Connect the button connectors - electrical cord button to wrist band button. Cord alligator-clip-on-thingy to the computer metal frame. And like my Science Class high school teacher always said when he finished doing something... "Walla!" You are grounded to the computer metal framework...you become one electrically speaking. Plus any part you grasp to install onto the computer becomes grounded, also become as one electrically speaking with you and the computer. Then working properly, like Star Trek's "Scotty", is what you do. But that is another story. One that you will do with your computer and it's components. All I did here is got you and the computer and the components you will handle, remove or install, properly grounded to share the same electrical force...being all properly grounded. Hehe. You can even un-clip the button connector. Go do something else and when you return clip the button connector back and you are safely re-grounded to the computer frame! Neato! Huh? Good luck on your computer workings...!