I agree, 99% of the time you’ll be fine but… I have had a bed sheet come out of the dryer with so much static that once it was on the bed you could move your hand over it and see spark discharges like mini lightning. Freaked me out, was late enough that at first I just noticed a weird faint blue glow.
At the same time though I once arced nearly 2000 volts at 10mA directly through an IC multiple times before I caught it due to some fucked up wiring durring a hi pot test. The IC was still perfectly fine afterwords and passed all tests. Of course I still replaced it because there’s no way I would ship that to a customer. But you would be surprised by the amount of abuse modern electronics can take.
Static is definitely easy to come by but the odds of it actually doing any harm are very low.
I agree, 99% of the time you’ll be fine but… I have had a bed sheet come out of the dryer with so much static that once it was on the bed you could move your hand over it and see spark discharges like mini lightning. Freaked me out, was late enough that at first I just noticed a weird faint blue glow.
At the same time though I once arced nearly 2000 volts at 10mA directly through an IC multiple times before I caught it due to some fucked up wiring durring a hi pot test. The IC was still perfectly fine afterwords and passed all tests. Of course I still replaced it because there’s no way I would ship that to a customer. But you would be surprised by the amount of abuse modern electronics can take.
Static is definitely easy to come by but the odds of it actually doing any harm are very low.