Interesting question! The answer is that it's pretty rare for anyone to break the board in this way. If they did, I'm sure we'd replace it, but although we have

Interesting question! The answer is that it's pretty rare for anyone to break the board in this way. If they did, I'm sure we'd replace it, but although we have shipped a lot of kits now, last I heard there weren't any returns where the board was zapped. There is a degree of ESD protection designed onto both the chip and the board.