Hi All, It's that time of month again and I have posted another of my Technical Tidbits. Here is the latest: Technical Tidbit - September 2010 In ESD Testing, Necessity is the Mother of Invention (powering an ESD simulator from AA batteries) This month's Technical Tidbit outlines a handy modification to an ESD Simulator to power it from AA batteries. Abstract: Sometimes a quick solution is needed to an engineering test problem. Details are shown of a quick modification to a KeyTek Mini-Zap ESD Simulator to power it from four AA batteries. The URL is: http://emcesd.com/tt2010/tt090210.htm[1] Doug ------------------------------------------------------------- Separately, all the details of my upcoming presentation at NASA Ames ResearchPark on the 16th of this month are finalized. It is open to the public. It is not a free advertising presention but a low cost useful technical presentation. Details: Finding Design Defects Using Time and Frequency Domain Techniques One half day practical class at NASA Ames Research Park by Douglas C. Smith Thursday, September 16th at 1:00 p.m. Have you ever had a hidden design issue on an IC device, PCB, or at the system level, cause problems during compliance testing or after equipment wasput into service? Do you worry about hidden design flaws affecting the mission outcome or causing expensive field problems in commercial equipment? Do you need a quick quality check of a cable harness that has restricted access or can’t be visually inspected and that does not disturb the cable or its connectors? These topics and more are covered in this practical “hands-on” ½day class at NASA Ames Research Park. URL for a pdf file with more information: http://emcesd.com/pdf/NASAsem_091610.pdf[2] Learn “out-of-this-world” techniques to find hidden and intermittent design flaws before they cause problems. Doug -- ------------------------------------------------------- ___ _ Doug Smith \ / ) P.O. Box 1457 ========= Los Gatos, CA 95031-1457 _ / \ / \ _ TEL/FAX: 408-356-4186/358-3799 / /\ \ ] / /\ \ Mobile: 408-858-4528 | q-----() | o | Email: doug@xxxxxxxxxx[3] \ _ / ] \ _ / Website: http://www.dsmith.org[4] ------------------------------------------------------- --- Links --- 1 http://emcesd.com/tt2010/tt090210.htm 2 http://emcesd.com/pdf/NASAsem_091610.pdf 3 mailto:doug@xxxxxxxxxx 4 http://www.dsmith.org ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu