LUCKYMAN
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Anybody have any ideas on how to store extra pcb's?? I have a couple in mylar bags and i have them in a closet.. How do you store them, and keep them from getting corrosion on them or what not??
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Anybody have any ideas on how to store extra pcb's?? I have a couple in mylar bags and i have them in a closet.. How do you store them, and keep them from getting corrosion on them or what not??
Don't make me break out the pic.
I bubble wrap and put them back in the box I got it in with the name of the PCB on the box and working status.I personally bubble wrap them and label them with the title and either working or non-working and store them in closets.
I bubble wrap and put them back in the box I got it in with the name of the PCB on the box and working status.
I bubble wrap and put them back in the box I got it in with the name of the PCB on the box and working status.
Curious...you are using the antistatic bubble wrap, right?
Me -- static shielding bags and in boxes.
Ed
Didnt know they had antistatic bubble wrap just anti-s bags.
Yep -- usually pink. Costs more than the clear stuff. The clear stuff is a nasty static generator. If it wasn't too late and the test equipment wasn't locked up for the day - I'd go down to the lab to measure the voltages generated by the clear bubble wrap and compare to the pink.
Last week - I had the ESD meter and measured two clear plastic bags rubbing together just once - hit 3KV. I imagine rubbing them a couple times would get the voltage wayyy up there.
Also remember - antistatic and static shielding are two different animals.
Antistatic means it won't generate static...but it won't shield against static either.
Static shielding - won't generate static and will shield against static.
Pink (sometimes green) poly bags are usually antistatic.
Black or silver bags are usually static shielding.
Storing the boards open and in slots as the other poster showed (he's much more ambitious than me!) is far safer than using the ordinary bubble wrap. Even boxes is better (no bubble wrap) - cardboard is not much of a static generator.... and this keeps prying fingers from handling them.
Ed
Good info to know there. Wonder where a good place is to buy a bunch of pink bubble wrap?
Curious...you are using the antistatic bubble wrap, right?
Me -- static shielding bags and in boxes.
Ed