Electrostatic discharge protection

Hi folks,

Going to fit crankshaft position sensor, comes in ESD protective package with warning on ESD.

What is best way to protect against electrostatic discharge when fitting it?

Is ESD gloves, wrist strap, mat needed?

Ta

ESD is a device employed by 3M to generate income by selling protective equipment to their 'Believers'

Provided you're not dressed in a full nylon body suit or wear a wool jumper and rub yourself against an amber rod you'll be OK.

Just earth yourself by touching the metal surround of whatever you're working on before diving in.

Ha ha thought as much, cheers mate

Geep said:

ESD is a device employed by 3M to generate income by selling protective equipment to their 'Believers'

Provided you're not dressed in a full nylon body suit or wear a wool jumper and rub yourself against an amber rod you'll be OK.

Just earth yourself by touching the metal surround of whatever you're working on before diving in.

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Another one talking out of their arse.

But for this job. No worries .

I can understand a printed circuit board being especially prone to ESD and whenever working on changing parts of a computer would work with wrist strap plugged to Earth.

The crank sensor is encapsulated in what appears is a plastic body in which case would already be insulated from ESD.

Fair point though to discharge any build up by touching a metal part of engine near sensor housing before slowly removing the sensor and fitting without
Touching the sensor contact pins...plus not wear a wooly jumper and nylon suit on a foggy day !

The Mad Hat Man said:

Another one talking out of their arse.

But for this job. No worries .

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I can assure you that at no time did sound emirate from my rectum.

I recall seeing 3Ms photos of flashed junction in semiconductors, these were
subsequently exposed as engineered failures.

Most if not all devices now have protected inputs and are VERY unlikely to
suffer from ESD, though a TND going off in close vicinity may zap them 😄

Hmn, can remember changing Z80 PIO chips in access control systems which seemed a bit susceptible to bad handling, used to carry a box of them in the car as spares, changed at least one a week. always used to just touch the metal of the enclosure, which was earthed, before I got one out, never had a problem that way.

The industry still has extensive ESD procedures & techniques - particularly in Aircraft and Military environs.