[time-nuts] Conducting Bench Top Material

Ed Palmer ed_palmer at sasktel.net
Tue Jan 26 20:42:30 UTC 2010


Everything old is new again.

The 25+ year old HP Bench Brief that I referred to a few messages back 
warns about that.

Ed

Joe Fitzgerald wrote:
>> I am concerned about static discharges when
>> handling modern semiconductors.
>>     
>
> These days it's not just semiconductors at risk given the tiny geometry of
> passives.  At work we had a work station where we assembled a board with
> all passive components, so no thought was given to ESD control.  We traced
> a series of mysterious failures to ESD affecting the value of some
> resistors.  Now ESD control is just about everywhere!
>
> -Joe Fitzgerald KM1P
>
>
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