On May 11, 23:16, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> I've gotten boards wrapped in foil, not sure if they worked, don't
remember
> if I tested them (scares the H*** out of me having them wrapped that way
> even though I hear it's safe)
Foil is fine[1], because it's conductive, just like black conductive
plastic bags and black conductive foam, only more so, of course. The
drawback is that it tends to get punctured by the protruding leads and is
easily torn. The point of any static dissipative system is to keep
everything at the same potential.
[1] except for anything that has a backup battery on board, or for a few
CMOS real-time-clock chips (most are OK, though).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Wed May 12 1999 - 01:27:02 BST