Mauricio, Perhaps you could integrate a small piece of indium tin oxide coated film as the window to your display and use conductive sprays elsewhere. I just Googled on < +"indium tin oxide" +film > and had a fair number of hits. I know that the people who manufacture display overlays for us (essentially a fancy label) use these kinds of films on some of our products. Regards, Dave Mauricio Jancic wrote: > My theory is that ESD is being generated and when the user approach >the machine a discharge is produced trough the 7 segment displays that you >can see on the pictures in the OP links. > > So the problem I'm trying to solve is exactly how to protect the >feeder to ESD in the normal use... Should I connect the plastic case to >earth? Would it work? > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist