Destroying Semiconductors with ESD & Protection Circuit! Design for EMC

[@Microwave_Dave]

Thanks Kevin, this is the best video I've seen directly demonstrating ESD component failure modes. I'd really like to see your follow-up video trying to destroy an Arduino or RasPi microcontroller whenever you have time. I show this to all my friends who have the mistaken belief that modern computer hardware isn't sensitive to ESD, but then waste days or weeks troubleshooting strange unexplainable hardware glitches.

[@ammarsyaf3035]

I was working in prototyping a plc and I notice after a few days it start to act weirdly especially the transistor leaking the current. Thank to you to show the unseen process of esd damage on transistor.

[@Marco-yj6gg]

Great Video! Never have seen ESD protection circuits in action, thanks!

[@QuadcopterPatrol]

Thanks for the informative video! The different behavior when you shock the mosfet is pretty interesting to see.

[@jappadadappa]

Great video! I'm glad you took apart the protection circuit and tested individual portions (even though it may have been for masochistic reasons :P).

[@azyfloof]

Hearing you shuffle your feet back and forth on the carpet reminds me of that Dilbert cartoon where Dogbert is shuffling around to build up static, in a bid to rediscover himself as a modern day Zeus by electrocuting Dilbert :D I recently bought myself a new vacuum cleaner. A brand new, fully cromulated Dyson V6 cordless. Amazing little thing! But the static it builds up is such that I've now taken to vacuuming my house whilst barefoot, otherwise I can't touch the metal tube after I'm done!

[@jims408]

Very nice demonstration and the circuit protection that goes with it. Thank you!

[@taquenos]

thanks for the interesting video! you could test with both positive and negative discharges, varying the material on which you rub your feet.

[@GranVlog]

Very good demo. exactly what i needed. Im using the atmega 328p mu. after reading the manual and such, i found out that it has this internally, so the easiest method is to just add resistors on all the io pins. i will use this method that you showed on the mosfets tho. ive probably killed a few earlier boards that i made with esd.... when i think about it :P

[@viditk]

ElectroBOOM shall be proud of you

[@krish2nasa]

Nice tests Kevin, what Schottky diodes did you use in the circuit? Thanks

[@NicuIrimia]

I like to discharge using a small neon bulb that i got from a live check ing screwdriver thing. It glows nicely

[@PeranMe]

Excellent stuff as always, thanks! What diodes are you using, I'd like to experiment with this myself?

[@jpalm32]

Years ago and I mean years ago I owned a security company. I installed a well known brand security system and customers were walking across the carpet and touching the remote turning the system on/off and activating the panic alert to police. The company finally duplicated the problems and sent out transorbs to help correct it! Trouble with transorb at that time, they needed to be replaced if hit with a excess charge beyond their rating

[@getreal155]

Very nice the way you approach this in a practical manner. Tnx for the lesson

[@ewncilo]

What do you think about Electrostatic Discharge Protection Anti-Static Wrist Strap + Grounding Wire ?

[@samuelrj2350]

What physically causes this? Is something in the FET getting permanently charged like EEPROM double gates? Maybe your socks on the carpet charged you positively and the fleece negatively which is why the LED got dimmer or brighter after certain shocks. I'd be interested to see if you'd get only dimmer failures or only brighter failures if you only had one diode in.

[@SomeDudeInBaltimore]

It's the blown remains of the metals and other materials making up the MOSFET that form a permanent conduction path that can no longer be influenced by the gate.

[@samuelrj2350]

@@SomeDudeInBaltimore Thanks for the reply! Do you have thoughts on why the on-state got dimmer, then brighter again after subsequent shocks?

[@gus_smith]

Can you destroy a mosfet by soldering it on a PCB? If so, how to prevent that?

[@mohinigoel2898]

What is the LED rating?

[@syletie]

Does anyone know a cheap 8kV relay?

[@amoghjain]

would you do a video with microcontrollers as well?? :-)

[@Kevindarrah]

yea, that might be cool... but also expensive!

[@malinwolfhess]

This is one of the funniest videos for electronics I've ever seen! Bahahahaha! I was waiting for, "Next, I'm going to connect car battery terminals to my junk and see if I can light a Christmas tree." Hahahahaha! Awesome video. Taking pain for education. 👍

[@i5artube]

Thank you for sacrificing yourself!

[@JOKERKYZAR]

Once the whole class in high school was working with the PIC16F84A (Wich was about 15 dlls at the time), none of them worked, we didn't know why until our teacher told us about EMC right after facepalming (we wasted about 30 PIC's or so)

[@paulmeynell8866]

I hate Esd shocks , so thanks for this great video, very informative .

[@tamerozbey22]

thank you very much frend! youre great man. very useful information

[@HillOrStream]

Kevin sacrifices several million finger cells in the name of science!!

[@lasersbee]

There is no way in HELL that I would put carpeting on the floor of an electronics workshop/lab. 9:24 BTW... you could hold a metal implement/tool/nail in your hand and use that to touch the input wire of your circuit and you would not feel the "pain".

[@RSP13]

Why not?

[@mixtermuxter8602]

I touched the metal frame of my laptop speakers once. It zapped me pretty good, and i got a sudden shutdown with bluescreen.

[@nchaconn79]

Why not use an ESD stimulator (ESD Gun) ? Still great effort mate

[@fkf6574]

so kann man mit aufladung alles kaputt machen

[@LarsKristianClausen]

If you use a piece of metal to touch the wire, you won't feel the zap.

[@Kevindarrah]

+Lars Kristian Clausen ha, yea someone else mentioned that as well... what's the fun in that though :)

[@novadelp5969]

Lars Kristian Clausen I can handle this stuff pretty well kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaTRiHaGZrGMj80

[@grmljegrmone8807]

how about just buying a prank zapper lighter or whatever its name is xD... after the first couple of zaps it kinda hurt me looking at you, hahahha... but cool vid, always thought esd kills the transistor completely, now i know why my projects sometimes only kinda worked :D

[@raads.mahmood5063]

thank u ..u r the best

[@y632rewww7fg43298jdm]

Quick tip for your house. When there is more moisture in the air / carpets / ... - there is more conductivity for the charges. Sometimes even only lightly sparing your carpet with an spray bottle of water is all you need to prevent these charges to accumulate on yourself.

[@Cobalt1911]

Great series of videos ! I'd recommend them to anyone who's willing to step up their design :)

[@soothcoder]

It would be cool to see what happens with just one diode and if that works consistently. Maybe you are always negative?

[@rj44319]

I remember testing a Buck converter and smoking it...Had to sample another dev board and my boss wasn't happy....

[@Kevindarrah]

+Richard Johnson here's one for ya - I was working on a design once and was having problems with an old CD series part. This was through hole stuff that this company had stocked in their parts bins. So I swapped the part out with a new one... nothing... then another, and again... nothing... I tested every part in that bin and they were all dead. I then overnighted a tube from digikey, and bingo, worked like a charm. We think that someone stuck their hand in there and zapped the whole freakin bin. That one had me pulling my hair out...

[@Kevindarrah]

+Kevin Darrah or one time I was working in the EMC lab for a company and we were running contact/air discharge tests on a product when another engineer told us about really weird ESD problem. They were zapping all of the mounting screws of the product, which is no big deal since they tie right into chassis ground, but the strange thing was that the product would reboot when one of the screws got zapped. They spent weeks trying to figure this out, and it turned out the that path to ground through the metal chassis passed right by the main processor. They found that the EMF generated by the ESD was enough to mess with the reset line!

[@dansavin1]

Handed Raspberry Pi to my friend. Forgot that i have plastic sole shoes. Guess the end of the story.

[@Лёха83-щ1ш]

You've promised blowing up parts! ;(

[@friedmule5403]

How to become a spark gap in seven easy rubbings! :-)

[@jaa93997]

zap him again..... zap that son of a bitch again..... guns n roses knew.....

[@debashisdas7557]

i have ffffddd my Raspberry pi with Esd.. ooo Good horrible day

[@AleksandarKospenda]

FFF. hehe.