Protecting IC pins with foam

[Demon]

Nice construction.

Well, you do not need to put antistatic in every drawer. Capacitors, resistors or other hardware have no problem with ESD. Just semiconductors.

Ioannis

Ok, so basically any IC gets a mylar liner, and sits on ESD foam (depending on pin lengths - SMDs just sits on thin 3mm foam mainly cause I have it on hand now).

Discretes need nothing:

- diodes;
- resistors;
- pots;
- rotary encoders (maybe 3mm foam to help protect pins when there's only a few sloshing in the drawer);
- capacitors;
- LEDs;
- ZNRs;
- TVSs;
- photocells.


Anything wrong, or am I missing anything?