Siemens SINAMICS S120 Equipment Manual page 7

ESD notices
Caution
Electrostatic sensitive devices (ESDs) are individual components, integrated circuits, or
boards that may be damaged by either electrostatic fields or electrostatic discharge.
Regulations for handling ESD components:
• When handling electronic components, you must ensure that the person carrying out the
• Personnel in ESD areas with conductive flooring may only handle electronic components
• They are grounded with an ESD wrist band
• They are wearing ESD shoes or ESD shoe grounding straps
• Electronic boards should only be touched if absolutely necessary. They must only be
• Electronic boards must not come into contact with plastics or items of clothing containing
• Boards must only be placed on conductive surfaces (work surfaces with ESD surface,
• Do not place boards near display units, monitors, or television sets (minimum distance
•
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work, the work place, and packaging are properly grounded.
if:
handled on the front panel or, in the case of printed circuit boards, at the edge.
synthetic fibers.
conductive ESD foam, ESD packing bag, ESD transport container).
from screen: 10 cm).
Measurements must only be taken on boards when the measuring instrument is
grounded (via protective conductors, for example) or the measuring probe is briefly
discharged before measurements are taken with an isolated measuring device (for
example, touching a bare metal housing).
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