Timeline for Wood workbench as ESD protection?
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| Feb 25, 2016 at 7:12 | comment | added | Russell McMahon♦ | @Rob I'm not your brother in law - but maybe you mant the old grey guy in this photo and this photo in that albumn :-). If so, yes. Or the Old Grey Guy in many of these :-) | |
| Feb 24, 2016 at 2:18 | comment | added | Rob | @RussellMcMahon People keep missing the significance of what I was referring to and that is he was working in a hobby environment, and that is what I was answering to, but the responses were all about a production/manufacturing environment. Yes, those are pretty pictures. Ex-brother-in-law works in China for HP. Hmm. Is that you?! | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 23:24 | comment | added | Russell McMahon♦ | .... Making Pretty pictures can be less frustrating. | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 23:23 | comment | added | Russell McMahon♦ | @Rob Octarine ? :-). The post came up semi-randomly for some reason, as happens. I reskimmed it and noted your comments. I used to be very cynical re ESD claims but found that "sensible care" seemed sensible. | I have not worked for Pixar or Silicon Graphics (but hope to soon sell something to Sony)(and maybe Honda)(and, maybe neither), never even sent any copy to Byte magazine and knew (via internet only) the man who sat next to the man who designed what became the Intel 4004. He's now dead, alas. I've submitted to Analog but never been accepted. ... | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 23:12 | comment | added | Rob | @RussellMcMahon Yes but I've been watching you and your every movement. | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 23:11 | comment | added | Russell McMahon♦ | @Rob 2+ years on :-) - In one situation we used to have a significant percentage of eproms fail during an UV erasure procedure. This being "the good old days", they were carried to and from a brick tile inside window ledge where they were placed in the sun for erasure. This worked well, but deaths occurred. ESD procedures were added and death rate dropped to zero. This wa an extreme case with a 'nice dry warm' area on a good insulator, but showed how bad the worst case could be. | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 12:38 | comment | added | Rob | @JonRB Yes. You do. | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 12:22 | comment | added | user16222 | non-sequitur and is missing the point. | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 11:15 | comment | added | Rob | @JonRB Then your anecdote is better than mine and every bedroom hobbyist needs to rush out to buy such a table to protect themselves cause every bedroom hobbyist has $50K or more invested in their hobby circuits and needs equal protection. | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 1:54 | comment | added | user16222 | No, it is very bad advice to peddle your anecdotal evidence that it is ok to "never use any ESD protection". "50 years of experience" equally does justify that because I can counter that with $50,000 worth of damage (proven when an IC was sent back to Infineon) due to ESD was not properly adhered to on the shop floor where I worked 15years ago. | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 1:45 | comment | added | Rob | @JonRB The original question is trying to find out if the hobbyist can get by without an expensive ESD tabletop. 50 years of experience shows the answer to be true but I said he should still be careful such as how you are about STDs and the skanks you are with. | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 1:17 | comment | added | user16222 | VERY BAD justification. I have never caught an STD, must be ok... trifield.com/content/tribo-electric-series | |
| Dec 11, 2013 at 14:20 | history | answered | Rob | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
