So, you’ve just been tasked with building or designing your first Electrostatic Protection Area (EPA). You’ve started doing your research, but there are so many choices, from so many different companies. Suppliers, manufacturers, third party providers… If only there...
In the mid-1820’s, Georg Ohm, a self-taught mathematician and physicist, began doing experiments in the newly discovered field of electromagnetism. Hoping to advance his stalled career, he used the work of Hans Christian Ørsted as a jumping off point, discovering an...
In 1865, Lewis Carrol published Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, at the time, a thinly veiled political commentary wrapped in a fictional form. Who knew that 150 years later, the book would have spawned several movies, pop cultural references, and a Grace Slick song....
There’s a classic scene that appears, with some variation, in every James Bond film. Bond gets assigned a new mission and he goes to see MI-6’s Quartermaster, or “Q.” Q gives Bond everything he needs to complete the mission, including a few items that seem unusual or...
It’s hard to walk down a sidewalk these days without seeing a crack in the pavement. Some of these have obvious reasons, like strong tree roots pushing them up, while others seem to appear out of nowhere. When concrete is initially poured on a flat surface, to create...
So you’ve finally got your brand spanking new Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) preventative flooring installed. It looks great, it works great. But how do you keep it that way? You’re smart enough to know that just like this is a specialized floor, it requires...
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...
