Static Electricity and ESD Matting Have you ever been working in your garage and accidentally made contact with a metal part of an ungrounded electrical appliance, like a box fan or a badly wired junction box? The jolt you receive wakes you up faster than a cup of...
Last week we shared with you Part 1 of The Truth About 11 Myths of Electrostatic Discharge; here’s Part 2… Myth #6 – An ESD bag is all the protection I need. There is a somewhat popular belief that you can use the ESD shielding bag that your circuit board...
Would it surprise you to know that a good portion of our modern world would be unable to function without the help of electrostatic discharges (ESD’s)? No one seems to know quite how it happened, but in 1984, Scott M. Kunen applied for a patent for a “touch controlled...
In Michio Kaku’s book, Physics of the Future, he notes that today’s smart phones have more computing power than NASA had in the 60’s when they were plotting and launching the moon landings. The latest SONY Playstation can outperform the supercomputers the US...
In the late 1930’s, Walter Jaeger, a physicist from Switzerland was trying to develop a portable sensor for poison gas. He theorized that gas entering the sensor would bind to ionized air molecules and thereby alter an electric current in a circuit in the instrument....
