[PSES] Further investigation about hand-metal ESD

[Doug Smith]

Hi Everyone, I just posted my Technical Tidbit for July. Here is the information: Technical Tidbit - July 2013 Human Metal ESD Characteristics, Size of Metal Object (Intensity of ESD from a metal object in a human hand is not significantly affected by the size of the metal object) This month's Technical Tidbit presents data showing that the size of a metal object in a human hand does not strongly affect the intensity of EMI generated by the ESD event. Abstract: The intensity of an ESD event from a human hand is affected strongly by the presence of metal held in the hand. Data is presented to show that the peak amplitude of the EMI generated by a discharge directly from a metal object in a human hand is not strongly affected by the size of the metal object held. Any size piece of metal intensifies the ESD event significantly. The link to the article is: http://www.emcesd.com/tt2013/tt072113.htm Your computer may corrupt the link above by appending "[1]" to the .htm. Just remove the "[1] and the link will work. So far only Windows computers seem to have this problem. Let me know if this occurs on a different operating system. I have not used Windows for over ten years now. Doug -- -------------------------------------------------------------- ___ _ Doug Smith \ / ) P.O. Box 60941 ========= Boulder City, NV 89006-0941 _ / \ / \ _ TEL/FAX: 702-570-6108/570-6013 / /\ \ ] / /\ \ Mobile: 408-858-4528 | q-----( ) | o | Email: d...@dsmith.org \ _ / ] \ _ / Web: http://www.dsmith.org -------------------------------------------------------------- - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ 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 <emcp...@radiusnorth.net> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald <dhe...@gmail.com>