[Elecraft] Grounding Mat Chatter

[Terry Schieler]

And, hopefully, the UPS truck that delivers your new K3 will have an
anti-static grounding strap dangling from the rear axle.  ;o)

Terry, W0FM

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From: lstavenhagen [mailto:lstavenhagen at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 9:16 AM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Grounding Mat Chatter


Well you can just imagine the problem for Elecraft if they decided to
"approve" a particular ESD mat:
- they'd have to choose one or two out of the bunches of the ones available
- offer some reason they preferred these one or two over the others.
- get them in stock, set a price for them.
- endlessly dodge emails, phone calls about why they chose the ones they
did.
- more endless emails, phone calls about what's wrong with the ones they
didn't choose.
- try to make money reselling the mats they chose. Reselling something even
at break-even doesn't make good business sense, in fact that's kind of a
dumb thing to do. A lot of work for no gain.
- more endless emails, phone calls about how they're now charging too much
for the mats, we can get the same ones from Mouser for X instead of Y that
you're charging, 

etc. etc.......

C'mon fellers, lets use our heads on this one hi hi.... Just get a mat and
ESD strap from Mouser or etc., read the archives on the reflector and etc.
for proper ESD procedures and don't worry about it. I also wouldn't bother
pestering Elecraft on this - they know what they're doing. And the
precautions we need to take are in the manuals already. etc.....

Just my .02,

73,
LS
W5QD (K3 arrives tomorrow according to UPS)

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