Recognition Display Electrostatic Discharge Protection Checklist for School Installations
A school’s touchscreen recognition display can survive years of daily public interaction—fingerprints, casual bumps, humidity swings—and then fail silently because a technician grabbed the wrong edge of the controller board while swapping a USB cable. Electrostatic discharge is invisible, fast, and cumulative: a single discharge event may not destroy a component outright but can weaken it enough to cause intermittent failures weeks later during a championship ceremony or alumni induction event. In carpeted school hallways where students shuffle past lobby kiosks all day, static voltage buildup is a persistent and underestimated threat.
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