And, hopefully, the UPS truck that delivers your new K3 will have an anti-static grounding strap dangling from the rear axle. ;o)
Terry, W0FM -----Original Message----- From: lstavenhagen [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 9:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Grounding Mat Chatter Well you can just imagine the problem for Elecraft if they decided to "approve" a particular ESD mat: - they'd have to choose one or two out of the bunches of the ones available - offer some reason they preferred these one or two over the others. - get them in stock, set a price for them. - endlessly dodge emails, phone calls about why they chose the ones they did. - more endless emails, phone calls about what's wrong with the ones they didn't choose. - try to make money reselling the mats they chose. Reselling something even at break-even doesn't make good business sense, in fact that's kind of a dumb thing to do. A lot of work for no gain. - more endless emails, phone calls about how they're now charging too much for the mats, we can get the same ones from Mouser for X instead of Y that you're charging, etc. etc....... C'mon fellers, lets use our heads on this one hi hi.... Just get a mat and ESD strap from Mouser or etc., read the archives on the reflector and etc. for proper ESD procedures and don't worry about it. I also wouldn't bother pestering Elecraft on this - they know what they're doing. And the precautions we need to take are in the manuals already. etc..... Just my .02, 73, LS W5QD (K3 arrives tomorrow according to UPS) -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Grounding-Mat-Chatter-tp4811425p4818128.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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
