We have an engineer who did ESD testing once on the pins of ICs buried in a power supply assembly. The unit passed, and he thought it was a great way to show product robustness. However, when I asked him if he would redesign power supplies that failed his special test, he replied he wouldn't.
Would _you_ redesign your system if it failed? ---- Patrick Lawler plaw...@west.net On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 08:02:10 -0600 , "Aschenberg, Mat" <matt.aschenb...@echostar.com> wrote: >Since all of you have your ESD hats on..... > >Are there standards for testing of components on a pwb? There is some >concern here that we should be testing individual components on the pwb. > >Thanks for your help. >Mat Aschenberg ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.
