Dave wrote: > ...We > were always told that static damage isn't always immediately obvious and > that parts may be been stressed and suffer from premature failure at a > future date. > > 73 Dave, G4AON
As an example, a coworker and I were doing final testing of a prototype board we had just finished. He came back into the lab, forgot to ground himself on a dry January day, and pointed at a chip on the board while talking - and of course it was the expensive $500 chip. We both heard and saw the little lightning bolt between his finger & the IC! Everything seemed fine after extensive, careful testing & we were relieved. But a couple months after the board was fielded for testing strange errors kept occurring, and after much frustrating debugging we learned that the zapped chip was the culprit. Going through that once was more than enough. So I was very glad to build my K2 on an anti-static mat with grounded wrist strap! Mike ab3ap _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
