,> Now, any more examples of even suspected ESD damage anyone? Again, no
> production line stories please! Home shop or development lab only, I
> do not want to argue about one-in-a-million events.
>
>
hello Stefan
I agree with you way of looking at the risc contra the cost and more.
I have seen the esd damage ,its ,maybe 20 years ago where I tried to make a memory for my scope..I used some RAM ,think but cannot rememeber if they was called 2114 .. anyway each time I had somting working and needed a break then walking over the carpet to my workplace and turn on the power again.. the RAM did not work any longer. and later I have been convinced that this was ESD problem.. and just 6 years ago I was working in the laboratory at a university.. we had static floors and static tables.. it seemed as time had stood still there for last 50 years.. it is still so.. a group had a straingauge connected to a opamp with FET input.. a standard type. they came walking over the floor in big rubber boots and turnend power on.. the board did not work.. they replaced the opamp,telling me that they had grown used to this.. and I told them about esd..
IF I did not had experienced this events, maybe I would not belive that esd realy can be a problem.. and now I only have a antistatic mat on my table and use the old cmos series often and I have not had any faults that I think was from ESD
alex
and merry christmas to all of you