I’m open minded on this, and I will research it a bit.....
But from an electrical point of view, it makes to sense. The mattress would be an insulator.
I remember many years ago many vehicles would have a grounding strap or even a chain to ground the vehicle to help with motion sickness
This is not hooked to your mattress itself, i should have clarified, my apology.
Ok, explanation time. IR has it in his post.
You buy or make a pad to put on top of your mattress. You have thin bed sheets on top of this. Once you begin to sweat at night you make contact with the pad. We all sweat, even if not noticeable.
@IronRobi, the only issue with what you are doing is you may not have a good ground, or you may get backfeeding electricity come in the ground, not likely at all, but possible. The biggest thing is you may not get a good ground. I always go direct and armored and insulated ground cable with armor grounded as well, it is overkill, but that is what i do.
If you have a storm brewing unplug the bed, or put an inline fuse on the ground wire if you are worried about getting a shock with lightning strike, again, very low risk, but hey let's cover all the bases.
I am an electrical/Mechanical guy in charge of engineers and trades mechanical and electrical etc.As an FYI, in case you think i am just some hippie from another galaxy with a tin hat.
I understand it well and there is 0 i repeat 0 risk with this set up, and only very good things happen once you start it. Amazing actually.
Grounding chains on vehicles dissipate the static electricity that builds up as the vehicle moves through atmosphere. Airplanes have them as well, but they don't touch the ground, they discharge to atmosphere. Just need a good build up of protons to be built up and then discharged to the lower charged atmosphere.
Static charges can mess folks up big time, hence why it helped some folks.
Gondar1, lolol, you funny bugger you.
Anyway, it is amazing sleeps and recovery.
I made my own with copper wire taped to my mattress cover then put direct to the ground without the fusible link. If one uses a heavy gauge wire or ground cable you could use one, but honestly, the wire would disintegrate prior to you being affected. If you happen to get hit by falling powerlines, the ground wire will disintegrate prior to your fiery death and self BBQ headlines hit the local papers.