It was packaged in a metallic enclosure with D38999 connectors with protective plastic caps. Should have been immune to ESD. Worked fine before the trip, but when I got to my destination, it had funny behavior. When I got back home, it was even worse. It was in my checked in luggage on the way back. Luckily, I have spares.
On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 7:43:36 PM UTC-6, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:39 AM, acheesehead <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I went through security with one and TSA thought it was suspicious. They >> put it under the X-Ray machine and stared at it for about a minute. It has >> been confused since then. Sometimes boots, sometimes not. While a brief >> exposure is probably OK. A prolonged exposure might fry something. >> >> Well, normally, ionizing radiation can only change charge states in > internal electrical nodes, i.e. flip bits in memory and internal > CPU/chipset logic. In other words, it can't damage anything permanently. > > Theoretically, very high energy Xrays could disrupt crystalline structure > within the chips, i.e. damage them permanently, but it requires energy and > intensity much larger than that of an airport Xray machine. Whatever your > problems are, it's not because of the Xray scan---did the TSA folk > touch/handle the BBB? if so, they could have zapped it with static > discharge, which is much deadlier than Xrays. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
