Barry and Others, Good suggestions. I have always wanted to take a antistatic bag and shake coins, where only the coins were affected, and measure the response perhaps out of the top of the bag. Then put a non-ESD bag with coins inside a antistat bag, making sure in both cases that the coins hit each other in the same way. This series of experiments would isolate the effect of coins hitting coins only. I think Doug Smith talked about these isolation type experiments ar some point in time. How about it somebody who has the equipment? Richard Haynes 609-497-4584
-----Original Message----- From: Bailin Ma <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> List-Post: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 6:40 PM Subject: Re: explanation of ESD events with coins in baggie. >We might have to correct a misconception of triboeletrification that we >learnt from all demonstrations in schools. The myth is triboeletrification >only happens to insulators. >Can we try to say: Triboeletrification would cause transfer of electrons >between different materials. Insulators would hold electrostatic charges >due to the triboeletrification. On the other hand, transient flow of >electrons between different metals would produce broadband EMI. > >Please correct me. >Thank you. >Barry Ma > > >------------- >Original Text >From: <[email protected]>, on 3/16/99 12:16 PM: >I remember a similar effect. Many years ago, when I was a student, in my >room I had a TV set with a simple loop antenna. 2 meters away from the >antenna was the radiator of the central heating of that house. On seams of >the elements of that radiator the paint had come off. Below the paint the >metal was slightly oxidized with a black colour. > >When I took a scewdriver and rubbed the metal blade along that seam the TV >picture would become distorted with some black lines. >I always wondered why, and in fact still do. > >Rene Charton > > > >--------- >This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. >To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] >with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the >quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], >[email protected], [email protected], or >[email protected] (the list administrators). > > > >--------- >This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. >To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] >with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the >quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], >[email protected], [email protected], or >[email protected] (the list administrators). > > --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators).
