Big box of 47 Amiga chips on uk ebay start off price £5.00

[N7VQM]

DoomMaster wrote:
There may now be many different colors of the "pink foam" but they do not PROTECT the chips from being zapped.  Only the black foam does that.  

The black foam doesn't protect very well.  Only static sheilding (like a static-sheilded bag) will reasonably protect a component.  Black foam is not static sheilding.  It helps but if you carry a voltage-sensitive device stuck to that foam through a strong enough electrostatic feild (such as that surronding a computer monitor or electric motor), that device could be toast unless it's INSIDE a static sheilded container.

Granted, the black foam generally is better than the other stuff (which is usually just low-tribocharging rather than conductive, you just have to read the datasheet to make the determination) but neither one alone is enough to protect components.  

[Ni72ous]

I'm a class 5 in Gimp Detection and looking in your direction, it's like a beacon

:roflmao:

[amigamad]

Pink foam will not zap the IC, but it will NOT protect it either

Of course it does and amd get nearly all there cpu,s returned because it Dont work. :-D  :-D  :-D

[Druideck]

i'm foamin' at the mouth eeeeyyyaaaaa! :-P

[T_Bone]

DoomMaster wrote:
To N7VQM:

I saw them on the USA eBay.  That foam is NOT anti-static.  Anti-static FOAM is BLACK.     :-o

Oh for crying out loud.

[Karlos]

xeron wrote:

:-) :-D :lol: :roflmao:

[Krusher]

Don't they look just sexy?  :-D

[Karlos]

Regardng static damage, for these components I wonder how likely that is. At least the kickstarts are probably ok.

Why do I say this? Well, my recently assembled 1200D is using a pair of old kick 3.0 roms that I had stuck pin first into a block of expanded polystyrene for 4 years. They were in a bag in a drawer for all this time and they really are fine....

[Tomas]

DoomMaster wrote:
To N7VQM:

I saw them on the USA eBay.  That foam is NOT anti-static.  Anti-static FOAM is BLACK.     :-o

How come my athlon had a pink/white one? It was definitely not black.

[Tomas]

DoomMaster wrote:
To N7VQM:

You are wrong about that.  Pink foam is NOT anti-static, it just does not GENERATE static-electricity.  Pink foam does NOT protect ICs against static damage, black foam DOES.  In all the years that I have worked in the electronics / computer industry I have never seen yellow or white anti-static foam.     :-o

What about all those screenshots people just posted? I doubt a serious company like amd would use anything other than anti static packages for their cpus..

[amigamad]

they made 46 pound in the end. :-)