Electrostatic discharge (ESD)
LINAK
®
considers ESD to be an important issue and years of experience have shown that equipment
designed to meet the levels specified in standards might be insufficient to protect electronic equipment in
certain enviroments.
1. Handling and mounting electrostatic discharge sensitive devices (ESDS devices).
• Handling of sensitive components shall only take place in an ESD Protected Area (EPA) under protected
and controlled conditions.
• Wrist straps and/or conductive footwear (personal grounding) shall always be used when handling ESDS
devices.
• Sensitive devices shall be protected outside the EPA by the use of ESD protective packaging.
2. Responsibility LINAK/customer
• ESDS devices must under no circumstances, during transport, storage, handling, production or mounting
in an application, be exposed to harmfull ESD.
• LINAK can only guarantee the lifetime of ESDS devices if they are handled in the same way from
production at LINAK A/S until they are mounted in the manufacturer’s application. It is therefore
important that the ESDS devices are not removed from the ESD protected packaging before they are
physically within the EPA area at the customer premises.
Please refer to EN61340 for further information:
EN61340-5-1, Electrostatics - Protection of electronic devices from electrostatic phenomena - General
requirements
EN61340-5-2, Electrostatics - Protection of electronic devices from electrostatic phenomena - User guide
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