Protecting IC pins with foam

[Ioannis]

All these plastic bags or foams are conductive to some degree. That is why aluminum foil is also used. But i am a bit cautious with that since the chip may touch few pins and not all on the aluminum. Foam is much better since it will short all pins at once with a relatively low resistance.

You did nice job on the plastic boxes. I really like what you did with mylar.

I normally just use the foam and take care to have ESD wrist band on my hand, along with ESD floor mat and a mat on my bench. With these measures I had not a problem in respect with ESD.

Ioannis