Hi All, I have posted this month's Technical Tidbit titled "Filtering Contact Discharges - Part 2, High Pass Filtering (for troubleshooting or simulation of ESD from small objects)."
The article describes a method to high pass filter contact discharges >from an ESD simulator. This method is useful for troubleshooting ESD problems in equipment or simulating discharges from relatively small metal objects. Abstract: High pass filtering of an ESD contact discharge can be used for troubleshooting ESD problems with equipment or simulating ESD from small metal objects in a repeatable way. A method is described for constructing a simple coaxial capacitor to provide a high pass filter that leaves just the initial peak of the hand-metal ESD waveform while attenuating the low frequency components. The link to my University of California Santa Barbara seminar to benefit the University on November 1 is: http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/Research/HFFA2006/ All proceeds from the seminar go to the University. Most of the troubleshooting methods covered in the course are very effective and not taught by anyone else, a great excuse to spend a day or two in Santa Barbara. Doug -- ___ _ Doug Smith \ / ) P.O. Box 1457 ========= Los Gatos, CA 95031-1457 _ / \ / \ _ TEL/FAX: 408-356-4186/358-3799 / /\ \ ] / /\ \ Mobile: 408-858-4528 | q-----( ) | o | Email: [email protected] \ _ / ] \ _ / Website: http://www.dsmith.org - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
