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Walter,

   No argument about the desirability of bleeding off static when things
are getting tense!  My question, however, is will static wicks really do
anything for a non-conductive airplane?  Your Seneca, of course, had a good
old aluminium frame, so discharging any point on it (via a static wick arc)
would effectively bleed off charge over the whole skin.  For an e-glass
airframe, it's just not clear to me how a static wick will do any good.

Jim Cameron, ES builder

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