| Q: | What does “earthing” myself actually do ? |
| A: | It puts you at the same voltage potential as your EPA. |
| Q: | What if I don’t bother with “earthing” myself ? |
| A: | You may cause am ESD onto component / PCB. |
| Q: | If I can’t feel it, is it still a problem ? |
| A: | YES !! We start to feel it from 3000 v, hear it from 2000 v and see it from 5000 v. Considering that there are components around with thresholds of less than 50 v, we are better off being rather safe than sorry. |
| Q: | Is a damaged component obviously scrap ? |
| A: | If a component has “catastrophic” damage it will show up in test, BUT “latent” damage may not appear as a failure until later; i.e. tomorrow, next week, next month, maybe next year ....... nobody knows !!! |
YOU ALWAYS FOLLOW CORRECT PROCEDURES WHEN HANDLING
PCB’S AND STATIC SENSITIVE COMPONENTS......
ITS UP TO YOU ! ! !