I would like to see dissapative rather than conductive for operator safety in a fault condition and for product protection. What if you should have a charged PCB suddenly discharging to a conductive fixture? Be sure to avoid any plastics or other materials that could generate a charge. I use a lot of good old wood. >-----Original Message----- >From: Eric Kalgren [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] >Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 3:24 PM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: [TN] ESD Issues > >I am in the process of designing and building fixtures to aid our assemblers >when soldering. My questions is: Do these fixtures need to be conductive? >Our assembly area follows strict ESD procedures and the ESD engineer thinks >that the fixtures should be conductive to the static dissapative mats we work >on. > >Thanks for your input, > >Eric Kalgren >BFGoodrich >Aerospce >Data Systems Division > >################################################################ >TechNet E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c >################################################################ >To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following >text in the body: >To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TechNet <your full name> >To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TechNet >################################################################ >Please visit IPC's web site (http://www.ipc.org) "On-Line Services" section >for additional information. >For technical support contact Hugo Scaramuzza at [log in to unmask] or >847-509-9700 ext.312 >################################################################ ################################################################ TechNet E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ################################################################ To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TechNet <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TechNet ################################################################ Please visit IPC's web site (http://www.ipc.org) "On-Line Services" section for additional information. For technical support contact Hugo Scaramuzza at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.312 ################################################################ ################################################################ TechNet E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ################################################################ To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TechNet <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TechNet ################################################################ Please visit IPC's web site (http://www.ipc.org) "On-Line Services" section for additional information. For technical support contact Hugo Scaramuzza at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.312 ################################################################