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  1. Pangolin

    Inexpensive ESD (static) protection.

    Hehe. Well, it is a good guess in a vacuum, but actually the "discussed alternatives" don't have merit... Yes, ESD contains a big pulse with rise time around 0.7nS, but then there is a follow-on wave that takes tens of nanoseconds to dissipate. In fact this is where all of the real energy is...
  2. Pangolin

    Inexpensive ESD (static) protection.

    Hi LazyBeam, Great post with great insights!! Hehe. So it seems ;-) Yes, I did not know that up until now. Somehow I related LPF guys to PL guys because both use laser diodes. PL guys routinely use LASORB and swear by it. Your insight here seems right on the money (no pun intended)...
  3. Pangolin

    Inexpensive ESD (static) protection.

    First, I am not necessarily looking for new customers, or trying to sell these to people on this forum. There are companies all around the world who have used LASORB successfully, where everything else they have tried has failed. As I wrote before, medical, military, aerospace, university, etc...
  4. Pangolin

    Inexpensive ESD (static) protection.

    You raise a good question. I would use the analogy of the automobile, and what people would do to get around before the automobile was invented. Before the automobile was invented, people still got around. Some rode on the backs of horses, some rode bicycles, some walked. People surely got...
  5. Pangolin

    Inexpensive ESD (static) protection.

    Hehe. Well, you guys raise a number of interesting points and questions, and there are some basic answers I can give: Even if a laser diode is only $15, the question is, what is the cost of an overall system failure? Some of our clients use low-cost laser diodes in machines that themselves...
  6. Pangolin

    Inexpensive ESD (static) protection.

    Hehe. How many people have tested the solutions being proposed here in the real world? Common ESD devices made to protect semiconductor products won't work for Laser Diodes. If you want to understand why, see this page: LASORB - ESD absorber for laser diodes We have tested TVS as well as...


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