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Offline richard.cs

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Re: ESD confirmed kills?
« Reply #25 on: January 31, 2014, 09:07:09 am »
I'm not always as careful with ESD as I should be, but the only confirmed kill so far is an RF JFET. Unless you count lightning strikes as an ESD event. :P
 

Offline Gath

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Re: ESD confirmed kills?
« Reply #26 on: January 31, 2014, 09:21:11 am »
Well, the only chips I have toasted were the ones I used in my very first project (back in early college days). I zapped a GAL22v10 and a handful of PIC 16F series :scared: This was my first encounter with Murphy! Ever since, I am trying to be a bit serious when dealing with sensitive parts (mostly FETs based and alike).

Really sucks when the last working of 4 $700 prototype boards gets toasted, because someone isn't doing simple ESD precautions.

I've a friend who zapped custom chips straight out of the foundry. Talk about a mood killer after finally receiving a tapped out chip you have worked so much on. Thank god you always order many. But still ...
 

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Re: ESD confirmed kills?
« Reply #27 on: October 03, 2017, 07:05:44 pm »
I know this is an old thread, but it bears reading again.

Sainsmart sent me two 3.2 inch TFT displays with the pins stuck in white foam, packed in clear ziploc bags. Both were damaged, the displays had lines and would not work correctly. They also shipped four 2.4GHz transceivers with the pins stuck in white packing peanuts, held on with plain clear packing tape and stuck in clear ziploc bags.

None of them worked properly.
Steven J Greenfield AE7HD
 

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Re: ESD confirmed kills?
« Reply #28 on: October 04, 2017, 02:41:48 am »
Blew up an LT1920 (instrumentation amp) when making a college project. It was the most expensive part on the board, about $7 at the time  :palm:. Luckily, I had a back up just in case.
 

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Re: ESD confirmed kills?
« Reply #29 on: October 04, 2017, 11:24:29 am »
A lot of chinese sellers sadly do not pack things correctly, altho so far I have been lucky.

I've seen ESD power-cycling keyboard when I touched it after getting up the chair (yes, via plastic buttons), occasionally hanging the controller.

Got annoyed enough, bought a new, different one, same thing happens just without hanging it |O
 


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