[Elecraft] Grounding Mat Chatter

[Chris Hembree]

This would be like buying a new Apple computer every 2 years.
Chris W7CTH





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From: Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd at twofifty.com>
To: Bob Naumann <W5OV at W5OV.COM>
Cc: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sun, March 28, 2010 10:11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Grounding Mat Chatter

Being in the semiconductor business and having sat by a anti-static
crusader in a previous company, I can tell you you're completely wrong
about long-term damage. However, if you want to treat your rig like a
normal computer and get a new one in a couple of years, you'll be fine.

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Bob Naumann wrote:

> Despite this "fact", my K3 survived my totally inadequate use of the pink
> packing material and the silvery anti-static bags also.
>
> I think this whole issue is being blown way out of proportion.
>
> If these things were indeed that static sensitive, they'd be dropping like
> flies all over the world on a daily basis.
>
> Can we go back to talking about how to use these radios better and stop the
> arguing about minutiae?
>
> 73,
>
> Bob W5OV
>
> P.S. I installed my DVR board 2 weeks ago (without an "approved" static
> mat!) and it works perfectly alone and in conjunction with N1MM.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of David Woolley (E.L)
> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 2:35 AM
> To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Grounding Mat Chatter
>
> Some of the anti-static bags that Elecraft use are the pink ones.  Those
> are non-conducting and get their anti-static properties by not
> generating static, rather than dissipating it.  They would be useless as
> an anti-static mat.
>
> kf4by wrote:
>>
>> For a grounding mat I simply used the anti-static bag the RF board
> + was packaged in. I clipped my wrist strap to it until the radio grew
> to be a
> + chassis. At that time I clipped the wrist strap to the chassis but kept
> + the "mat" in place. All sub-assembly components were unwrapped on the
> + "mat". Hence everything was the same potential.
>
>
>

-- 
Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd at twofifty.com
BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte
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