Board packing etiquette

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Just got an SPO board from a customer. I've seen a lot of packing jobs (some good. some bad) This has to be one of the best I've ever seen. Completely wrapped in egg-foam.
 

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Just got an SPO board from a customer. I've seen a lot of packing jobs (some good. some bad) This has to be one of the best I've ever seen. Completely wrapped in egg-foam.

Yeah, those are VERY nice boxes to have if you can get them at an affordable price.
Spendy if you have to pay for them.

-Hans
 
All of our Cisco/Sun/HP boards come in those boxes. I always bring them home.. much to the dismay of my wife. Mylar bags and good shipping boxes are expensive.
 
Should be in a bag but i'm sure there's an issue with it anyways so that doesn't matter.

If you care about your board you pack it well :D like this person did (sans bag).
 
Pretty sure the black foam is anti-static.

I take those boxes (discarded ones) from work -- they're great because they're really crush-resistant. Nice thing is that I have a near unlimited supply of them and they throw away the grey anti-static foil wrappers pretty regularly too.
 
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I though it had to be pink to be truly anti-static?

-Tim



Pretty sure the black foam is anti-static.

I take those boxes (discarded ones) from work -- they're great because they're really crush-resistant. Nice thing is that I have a near unlimited supply of them and they throw away the grey anti-static foil wrappers pretty regularly too.

Rob
 
I though it had to be pink to be truly anti-static?

-Tim

The pink and black are both anti-static I think, the black (and the black foil) are supposed to be the better anti-static solutions.
 
The pink and black are both anti-static I think, the black (and the black foil) are supposed to be the better anti-static solutions.

If I remember correctly the pink stuff is anti-static (won't generate charge), while the black are usually conductive (if pretty high resistance).
 
If I remember correctly the pink stuff is anti-static (won't generate charge), while the black are usually conductive (if pretty high resistance).

Not sure, one won't conduct it easily, thought the other wouldn't generate static or something like that.

Both are supposed to be pretty good solutions.

Why would you want it to be conductive?
 
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Why would you want it to be conductive?

You don't want the outside of the bag to be conductive to the inside.. just to itself. That way if a charge is placed on the outside of the bag it's dissipated/distributed across the entire outside surface of the bag.
 
If its old TTL only boards it doesn't matter much anyway...

No, you are wrong. It DOES matter. TTL might be more likely to survive a hit, but it is NOT immune! You can damage parts, and worse you can turn good parts into marginal ones that only act up some of the time. Even worse these can further degrade over time and cause later, apparently unrelated failures.

The fact that you've never killed a board instantly by zapping it does NOT mean you are immune from static, and it doesn't even mean you've never killed a board! It just means you've never realized it...
 
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