Being in the semiconductor business and having sat by a anti-static crusader in a previous company, I can tell you you're completely wrong about long-term damage. However, if you want to treat your rig like a normal computer and get a new one in a couple of years, you'll be fine.
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Bob Naumann wrote: > Despite this "fact", my K3 survived my totally inadequate use of the pink > packing material and the silvery anti-static bags also. > > I think this whole issue is being blown way out of proportion. > > If these things were indeed that static sensitive, they'd be dropping like > flies all over the world on a daily basis. > > Can we go back to talking about how to use these radios better and stop the > arguing about minutiae? > > 73, > > Bob W5OV > > P.S. I installed my DVR board 2 weeks ago (without an "approved" static > mat!) and it works perfectly alone and in conjunction with N1MM. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Woolley (E.L) > Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 2:35 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Grounding Mat Chatter > > Some of the anti-static bags that Elecraft use are the pink ones. Those > are non-conducting and get their anti-static properties by not > generating static, rather than dissipating it. They would be useless as > an anti-static mat. > > kf4by wrote: >> >> For a grounding mat I simply used the anti-static bag the RF board > + was packaged in. I clipped my wrist strap to it until the radio grew > to be a > + chassis. At that time I clipped the wrist strap to the chassis but kept > + the "mat" in place. All sub-assembly components were unwrapped on the > + "mat". Hence everything was the same potential. > > > -- Hisashi T Fujinaka - [email protected] BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
