[Elecraft] (no subject)

[W3FPR - Don Wilhelm]

Phil,

The probability of ESD damage is difficult to predict - just go through the 
tests and see what happens, if something was static zapped it will do no 
harm, but stuff will just not work normally.

One aside about ESD damage - it does not always render a device inoperative. 
ESD can reduce the life of a part considerably, and may be responsible for 
failures later in the life of a product - it will just fail 'out of the 
clear blue' one day and one can only guess at the cause because the damage 
happened long before that.

73,
Don W3FPR

----- Original Message ----- 
>
> I have just completed the control board on the K2, only problem is that I
> didn't wear a wrist strap when I installed the chips on the board. I work 
> in
> a fairly high humidity environment but my floor is carpeted, does anyone
> think I will have problems when I do my test? I will now being using a
> static guard mat and a wrist strap from here on out!
>
>