I was reading about hunting and not scaring away the deer, and it said when washing your clothes to use wWash your hunting clothes in scent-free detergents and dry them withnaturally scented drier sheets.
Why use dryer sheets at all? Did Daniel Boone use dryer sheets? Did Davey Crockett? Did Sacajawea? Did Diane Fosse?
I don't have a clue. I use unscented laundry detergent and no dryer sheets. It gags me when my neighbors do their laundry and the smell of their dryer sheets wafts all over the neighborhood.
One disadvantage is that dryer sheets can cause a waxy build-up on the lint screen and inhibit air flow. If you use dryer sheets, you should test/wash your lint screen regularly Try running water through your lint screen. If it puddles more than flows, it's probably time for a cleaning.
We stopped using them too. Our dryer vent stopped clogging up. I am in Florida. I think static electricity stops up in Georgia somewhere around Atlanta. ;-)
Florida probably has enough humidity not to have any static electricity. Here in NC on cold days it is often enough to give you a good shock when getting in your car if it has certain seat covers.
In the plant I worked in there was a long rubber type floor mat about 70 feet long in a control room. You could walk across that mat and shock the crap out of yourself when opening the door in the winter time. The wall was was lined with instruments to control the process of the plant. It started out with air controllers. When the electronics was being put in, they would do all kind of strange things . They finally took out the mats.
Back in the 80's I installed hundreds of Radio Shack TRS-80 Model II Word Processing systems.
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The systems included the main computer with one 8" floppy drive, a drive expansion bay with three 8" floppy drive, and a Radio Shack Daisy Wheel printer.
These systems were so sensitive when it came to static that users were wiping out floppy disks in the expansion bay just by touching the plastic case of the keyboard. I knew of one system where the user could consistently make the daisy wheel printer print out a single character just by dragging her feet on the carpet and touching the keyboard.
Once we realized how bad the static issue was and that the keyboard played a major role, we began to open every keyboard and install a ground wire from the case to circuit board before we installed the system. This helped a lot, but was not a complete solution.
In the worst areas, we would attach a ground wire with a grounding bracelet to the sprinkler system. The users would put the bracelet on before touching the keyboard, a floppy or anything related to the system. That method finally stopped the printer from spitting out the character.
I have been here so long I forgot about static electricity but I was "shocked" back into reality when I fried the USB port on my laptop in Colorado. I walked across the carpet and plugged in my camera. Fortunately the only thing I blew was the USB port.
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