Ian,
I have always been of the opinion that it is not required to do air discharge
to conductive surfaces. That said, my current employer has written internal
standards to include air discharge to conductive surfaces. I'll be interested
to see where this thread leads.
Brent DeWitt
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Owsley
Sent: May 18, 2009 12:27 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PSES] ESD testing
The fun part of air discharges to insulating surfaces is that things are not
always what they appear to be. The air discharge can find a way around lots of
apparent insulation to find the nearest conductor and insert all sorts of havoc
in the system.
- Bill
Indecision may or may not be the problem.
--- On Mon, 5/18/09, Gordon,Ian <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Gordon,Ian <[email protected]>
Subject: ESD testing
To: "IEEE EMC & SAFETY PSTC" <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, May 18, 2009, 7:09 AM
All
Is it necessary to apply both air & contact discharges to equipment
given the following?:
Looking at 61000-4-2 I believe the critical part is the first paragraph
of section 7 ".Test set-up".
.....application of discharges to the EUT in the following manner:
a) contact discharge to the conductive surfaces and coupling planes;
b) air discharge at insulating surfaces.
it does not say for air discharge at insulating AND conductive surfaces.
The table in section. 8.3.1 is just for conductors but is essentially a
restatement of the above.
I cannot see any other part of the spec that implies the opposite.
Ian Gordon
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