ESD Control Products

How to Create an ESD Compliance Verification Plan

Desco September 15, 2017 0

Each component in an ESD protected area (EPA) plays a vital part in the fight against electrostatic discharge (ESD). If just one component is not performing correctly, you could harm your ESD sensitive devices, potentially costing your company a lot of money. The problem with many ESD protective products is that you can’t always see…

Controlling ESD in the 1400s?

Desco January 12, 2015 0

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) is the sudden flow of electricity between two electrically charged objects caused by contact, an electrical short, or dielectric breakdown. The natural phenomena of ESD has been occurring for as long as our planet has been around and apparently it has been a problem for much of that time. A recent post…

Measurement Tools for the “The Simple Problem”

Desco March 20, 2013 0

The ESD Association provided a recent article for Printed Circuit Design and FAB called titled “The Simple Solution”. To read the entire article, click HERE. The article is a good discussion regarding the importance of measuring in ESD Control situations. Any good ESD Control Plan requires different measuring devices to determine the need for and effectiveness…

ESD Testing Hurts

Desco January 14, 2013 0

We posted this back in May 2012, and we noticed the video has gone viral recently with major news channels like CBS news. People do not start feeling charges from an ESD event until the discharge is at least 2000 volts while many common components used for manufacturing of electronics are susceptible to 100 volts or less . …

New Machine

Image Desco September 12, 2012 0

Desco moved in a new screw machine last week to our Chino, CA manufacturing location. The new-to-us Brown & Sharpe Ultramatic R/S will take the place of the previous machine that we had been using since the early 1970’s. Yes, we have been making things for that long. The new machine is tight, smooth, and very quiet. It will be used to make proprietary parts used in products such as Desco wrist straps, Menda stainless steel probes and EMIT testers. Desco Industries, Inc. manufactures ESD control products and other production supply products at two UK and six USA factories.

What is a Faraday Cage?

Desco June 18, 2012 0

A Faraday cage or Faraday shield is an enclosure formed by conducting material or by a mesh of such material. Such an enclosure blocks external static and non-static electric fields. Faraday cages are named after the English scientist Michael Faraday, who invented them in 1836. An impressive demonstration of the Faraday cage effect is that…