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Originally posted by pippin88
First of all, that article isn't very accurate.
CMOS ICs (Sensitive to static) are often sold/packaged with there legs stuck through a piece of foil, it does not damage them...
About the bags, I've never tried powering anything on one. Have you tested one with a multimetre? I just did (two different silvery ones), infinite resistance. No circuit path. That pretty much says it not a problem if you ask me.
Also what do you say about the Clear ones with a black grid?
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i never fried a mobo by powering it on but i have seen the damage it does.
the ones with the black grid and clear rest that normaly have the manufacture name on are fine the ones im talking about are the silver coated ones thoose wont show much on a multimeter if any thing at all just not enough juice passes through them but 5 or 12 sure as hell will got a short distance on them hell i seen one where it burnt holes in the bag.
The pink bubble rap ones are fine you can use them to add support to the mother board ive done that my self cutting a spot out fro cpu and chip set of course.makes it nice when you have a larger than normaly mother board that may be able to arc agains the mobo tray.
Not so much orf a problem now but in older enlite cases that didnt have stand offs for larger board the pink buble rap or pink foam backers came in handy alot.
As for the acual need of anti static protection i dont know ive gotten zaped alot on every thing from cpu pins to mother boards and ram never seen any damage done im sure it can happen.
if you realy want to test the current find your self a high mili amp 12 or 24 volt adapter 2k milli amp will do cut the end off seperate the strands of wires then hold the frayed wires to the bag and drag the other set around it should give you a nice burn mark