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Great video - hope to see a longer one / blog post if F21 lets you publish details. Is there a story behind the PCB that's shown on fire, or was that just for
by voltagex_ 11y ago
Great video - hope to see a longer one / blog post if F21 lets you publish details.
Is there a story behind the PCB that's shown on fire, or was that just for show? ;)
- mattiasgunneras 11y agoWe anticipated some static from all the ribbons, so the superstructure is heavily grounded and made of aluminum, we also have aluminum plates inside each pixel module. But when our step-drivers started catching fire we bought a 3M 718 static sensor, it maxed out at 20kV so I actually don't know how much static we had on the ribbons. We ran tonnes of more grounding wires through the modules and that took care of the problem. But yeah, static caused a few fires here before we figured it out.
- peterfirefly 11y agoStatic electricity was a big problem on early drum computers.
- Serow225 11y agoTake a look at anti-static tinsel, it's perfect for this type of issue: http://www.statictinsel.com/how-to-use-tinsel.html http://www.statictinsel.com/how-to-use-tinsel.html