as long as you are touching a piece of metal from the chassis, or keep your hand touched inside the casing & ensure you are wearing shoes with a rubber sole you should be fine
PRESUMING you have already unplugged it and removed the cover, ground yourself by attaching a grounding strap to your wrist and the computer case to prevent static discharge
resistors
It is a ground strap to ground the engine block to the frame. a broken ground strap could result in improper electrical grounding for ignition and other electrical parts
grounding strap
It is a device that is used to ground vibrating machinery to the ground wire of the device's feeder wire. The strap has extra flexibility that will take the bending and flexing from the machine to the ground terminal. If a wire is used, most times it will stress fracture and break due to the vibration, leaving the device ungrounded.
No, you have a parasitic drain somewhere in your electrical system. The grounding strap isn't the cause of it.
Connect a ground wire to what? If you mean from the engine block to the firewall or frame - it ia always recommended that a grounding strap be connected between the two.
A grounding wire or strap.
A; By wearing a wrist strap connected to chassis and grounding the chassis to earth ground
you must be grounded via a grounding strap, which consists of a condective strap around your wrist (contacting your skin) a resister (usually about 1 megaohm) and a connection to earth ground.
Is there a bolt on engine ground strap
There are grounding problems on 1999 to 2003 Lincoln Town cars causing alternators not to charge properly and running batteries down. We replaced 3 alternators and 1 battery. We checked all ground straps on chassis/frame/engine and couldn't find exact location of ground strap that was defective. Also checked fuses and made sure all switches off in car especially heater/AC. Improvised by installing a new ground strap from engine ground to chassis/battery ground. System now charging properly, alternator output 13.5v to 14.5+v.