At 08:59 AM 12/19/2003 +1300, Russell McMahon wrote:

>> Here, I have wood floors, and unfinished wood tabletops, and I normally
>work in cotton socks. So far, I haven't measured more than 600V and that's
>pretty unusual.
>
>600 volts is only about 20 times more than the gate of a typical FET will
>stand (about 40 times for a typical logic FET). A PIC with protection diodes
>would probably survive it OK except on pin RA4 (no upper diode) or
>equivalent.



Most devices are ok with it. I wouldn't handle bare laser diodes without additional protection, and that is my peak measurement so far.

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