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| james_s:
I'd much rather get everything in antistatic bags than the other way around. In the past year I've bought several development boards, a hard drive and several arcade boards and only one of those boards came in any kind of ESD safe packing, it's amazing that it all still worked. The hard drive especially, it came in a single layer bubble wrap pouch stuffed loose in a small flat rate box. I fully expected it to be toast but ran a full diagnostic and it's fine, it was cheap and it's just in my security NVR so it's not a big deal if it dies at some future date. Anyway most people seem to have no concept of the need for static safe packing, thankfully modern semiconductors seem to be fairly robust. |
| KL27x:
--- Quote from: TimFox on December 16, 2018, 10:28:34 pm ---I knew that ESD was getting out of hand when I received some 1/4-20 UNC stainless steel bolts in anti-static packaging. Obviously, the vendor had standardized on those bags to make his life simpler. --- End quote --- Antistatic bags are much better at containing heavy parts and for retainimg their "new car smell." I use them quite often for things that need long term storage. Poly bags are great for short term, because you can see the contents more easily. but after a certain amount of handling they lose transparency and look like crap. So in the long run it might as well be in an metallized bag. of course my metallized bags are free. Endless supply from pirchasing components. |
| spec:
>:D You know DIP switches are static sensitive. There are no junctions to blow as in semiconductors, but there is a microns thick coating, often of gold, that can be pitted by a static discharge. But in the order of things the risk is not significant. |
| wraper:
--- Quote from: brownt on December 14, 2018, 10:46:57 pm ---anti-static foam type material --- End quote --- BTW of what color that is that foam? |
| brownt:
black |
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