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 . …
Most people do not start feeling the effect of an ESD event until the discharge is at least 2000 volts. It typically takes a ESD discharge of greater than 2,000 or 3,000 volts for a person to feel the “zap”. The number varies because the sensitivity of people is different and measuring the voltage is imprecise, so…
Question: What happens if you staple ESD Bags shut? Does that damage the ESD Bag’s effectiveness? What if the ESD Bag is heat sealed shut & a staple on the seam is used to attach paperwork? Answer: Desco Statshield® ESD Shielding Bags have a layer of metalized film which creates continuous conductive enclosure or Faraday…
Lots of end users tell us that rarely, if ever do they connect an ESD event to a failed product. But almost always, end users are not willing to invest the time in investigating the root cause of their product failure to determine if it was an ESD event or not. Most of the time…
Question: How are the electronics inside plastic cell phones and hand held computers protected from externally generated electrostatic fields? -Anonymous, Elkhorn, Wisconsin Answer: The electronics inside plastic cell phones and hand held computers may be protected from externally generated electrostatic fields by several factors: 1 – a static electric field does not generally penetrate materials,…
There is a 133 page handbook for implementing ANSI/ESD S20.02; it is ESD TR20.20. Here’s what it says about equipotential grounding and field service kits. Included in section 5.1.3: “When neither AC equipment or auxiliary grounds are available, an equipotential bonding system may need to be used. In this situation, all of the items in…