Quick question. Some RC helicopters use a belt drive that runs through the tail boom to spin the tail rotor. This causes friction which produces static build up that screws around with the electronics.
RC modellers wire the tailboom, the belt pulley, tail rotor shaft, and the bearing it sits on together in order to keep everything at the same potential. THey also then connect this to the ground on their electronics. Is everything clear?
My question is...wouldn't it be better to connect it to the electronics through a leakage resistor similar to those found in ESD wrist straps rather than a direct connection? Because if you touched say the tailboom and there was a sudden ESD discharge it would make its way back into the electronics via that ground connection?