Sean Breheny wrote:
> I definitely agree that our field techs could do better with regard to
> ESD precautions and we are going to do some training around that.
> However, I think it is interesting that A) very little of our
> equipment ends up being damaged - just the PIC programmers and B) we
> have never seen an ESD damaged multimeter or scope. These two items
> lead me to believe that the CCS ICD is particularly ESD susceptible
> and it would make sense to purchase some programmers which are
> considerably ESD tougher.

Couldn't you just make an "ESD-potection-inbetween"-gadget, permanently 
fixed to the CCS ICD? There are only a few lines to take care of.

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