I will buck the trend and state I did nothing special about esd, and never do, and don't seem to ever have problems.
If I am aware of it being very dry and having a lot of static buildup, I would then take precautions like grounding myself before working with chips, but I just don't think most stuff is as sensitive as people would think. In work, I handle chips, memory, router modules, and never had an esd failure in 25 years. Sometimes the stuff is bad out of the box, or it takes a lightning strike, but I never had an esd failure from handling parts. If its humid out or where you work, you wont have static issues. Winter with forced air heating is a time to take precautions, or maybe if you live in Arizona..... My problem is cats, I had to protect my partly built kits as the one cat loves radio stuff, he watches my soldering and building, and seems to want to help with the wires and parts, and maybe build his own stuff, but with MY parts. Brett N2DTS _______________________________________________ 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
