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how sensitive to static?

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I think i may have ruined it when i cleaned it with this microfiber towel... :(

i wont know till i test it, but, how likely is it?

unless of course they can put up with a little bit of static OK.. would it be the jolt of static electricity from one rubbing their feet on the carpet and touching a doorknob that it takes to zap these little suckers? or are they extremely sensitive to little invisible sparks of static?

If i didnt nuke it when i desoldered it, and fry it when i cleaned itg with that microfiber cloth, I may have an invincible diode! hopefully they're pretty hardy and can put up with the abuse
 





Did you put enough current to get it to even lase? Usually you feel like you ruined it until you've put in enough current to tell you that you didn't.

So long as the + and - pins are connected together they are generally safe from static death, though if you can see a spark from your static electricity, that might not be the case.
 
the PS3 nichia diodes are *VERY* sensitive to static... you must be electrically connected to ground at all times when handling them.. you could pretty easily kill those with just the static generated by your arm rubbing against your sleeve when you go to pick it up.

from what I can tell, the xbox hd-dvd diodes are much sturdier, and can take a lot more abuse without dying...

still, you should always be wearing an ESD grounded wrist strap when handling them, and if you plan on handling it without esd protection you should solder the pins to eachother, shorting it out..

anyways, yeah, they're sensitive to static, though not overly so. if you can feel a shock or see a spark, that's enough juice to kill almost any electronic device.. if you've touched a grounded object recently, then are staying put, working on it in one place, static shouldn't be a problem.
 
if the cloth i used was touching my grounded hand am i safe? i was grounded to a metal trashcan the whole time with a strap on (no not that kind of strap on dont get any ideas haha)

it's in a dark grey electronics bag, is that good enough or should i bend the pins to touch each other?

unfortunately the diode did leave my grounded hand when it went in the cloth >.< but the cloth was in my grounded hand..

heres what heruursciences told me...
heruursciences said:
Press fit it in an axiz module and apply 6V from a battery through a 22 ohm resister, it should lase at about 20-30mW if still alive. I cooked one of mine trying to de-short the pins. It got hot enough to met SN-63 solder and it survived! Shocked If it were a burner red one it woulda been toasted for sure!
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ok so like, buy one of them resistor things from radioshack or whatever + adn - to the battery terminals.. will 2 CR123A's produce the 6V needed?
 
Good general rules of thumb:

If you can FEEL static electricity, there's a 3000V potential
If you can HEAR static or a shock, it's 5000V
If you can SEE a spark, it's 8000V

Very little current, of course, but don't think just because "I didn't see or hear a spark" that there wasn't any static charge build up. It could easily be 2000+ volts of potential and you would never know. But, the diode has a really good shot at still being ok, so try it and see!

Also, I don't know about your trashcan, but my trashcans indoors are not earth-grounded. It may be ok as an electricity "sink", and may work well enough, but it's ALWAYS a better idea to be grounded to an earth' ground. This is achieved through metal parts of any appliance that has a ground plug to the wall (assuming your house is properly grounded, which it should be). Desktop computer cases are usually good bets since the have exposed metal on the backs and are grounded.
 
The PHR diodes are similar in static sensitivity to white led's, no where near as bad as the look at them cross-eyed and they die PS3 diodes!
 
i will say i did pretty well at extracting it though, and if it's fried then i guess i have no options except buying an xbox360 toshiba hd-dvd module as geeks.com is now dry :(
 
how sensative are these to heat? I just harvested one. Halfway through sanding off the heatsink, I tested it at about 45 mA. It worked fine and was outputting enough for me to know it was working (especially at such a low current). Then i kept sanding, cracked off the heatsink and pressed it into the AixiZ module. Set the driver to 89mA and BAM somehow the diode is dead. The only problem I see is that I may have gotten it a little too hot with the soldering iron, even though I tried not to let it get too hot. I'm stumped! Any thoughts?
 
Did you discharge your driver before hooking up the diode? I doubt it was heat, these are pretty tough. I am guessing either capacitor discharge or ESD..
 
^ just connect the two ends of the output together to let any charge that is built up to be depleted. Connecting them with any metal piece is fine, it just needs to be able to conduct the charge from one end to the other. I fried a Phazor by not doing that, my first dead diode.

Also, is your soldering iron ESD safe? I think a lot for people tend to take those for granted, but a lot of soldering irons are not grounded at all, and many that are grounded may not be guaranteed to be ESD safe.
 
yeah mine is grounded also. And I have Rkcstr's driver, which means that the capacitor should be discharged already (I think that's what it does, not sure).
 
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