[sdiy] Storing ICs (and static sensitivity) - how muchto worry?(Products)

[Tim Daugard]

From: "Dave Manley" <dlmanley at sonic.net>

>> You mean the 100/100 workshop is good for something? That's 100 Deg F 100 
>> % humidity.

> Yeah, well...what's that about no free lunch?  In climates that have 
> 100/100 you may have trouble with a much bigger form of static 
> electricity!

I worked with a gov. contractor that brought some new equipment to our site 
for testing. The were supposed to prove time available and reliability in 
the normal work envirionment. The 90 day test started finally in May after 
getting all the bugs out of the system. By June they were in serious 
trouble. They ran from 7 AM to 11 PM in two shifts and then shut down to 
install any required software / hardware changes. What they neglected to 
check was the weather reports. By the first week of June the civilian site 
manager asked me if the number of outages they had was odd. I told them no, 
and it was going to get worse.

In our neck of the woods use spend June, July, and sometimes August shutting 
everything electronic down for lightning almost everyday at 3 PM and go back 
to work about 5 or 6 PM. Of course if it takes an hour + to get back to 
work, then you are losing 3 - 4 hours out of  every 14 hour equipment day.

They didn't belive me, so I had the weather people give me the numbers. It 
turned out that we actually had below average storms that may.

Tim Daugard
(Trying to turn a Sillabs toolstick into music parts (MIDI to CV, Audio 
Delay, Audio Echo, Etc.) It's a $10 US flash memory board with ADC, DAC 
capability. Add a header and its ready to go.)