Hi
I want to build a roboter with a perspex housing in that I want to integrated the Netduino board, motor and servo controller. Can I mount the NP directly on the perspex plate in the paerspex housing ? I don't know wether i have to do something against static electricity to avoid to damage the board ?
Static electricity and perspex
Started by Bernd, Apr 29 2013 09:51 PM
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JerseyTechGuy
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Posted 30 April 2013 - 12:56 AM
Perspex (a brand name of Acrylic) like most acrylic sheets can build up static electricity. Unless you are running it in a very dry environment where you have fans that can move ions around quite a bit it is unlikely it will ever build enough static to damage anything.
I use acrylic for all of my casings and we are subjecting Pandora's Box to high EMF and Static Charge very often and haven't ever encountered an issue.
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Posted 30 April 2013 - 01:17 AM
you should be fine I think, its the discharge that kills. I mount mine on acrylic with nylon standoffs. the arduino R3 footprint is not so PEM friendly near around the or I would have done it in sheet metal!
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Posted 30 April 2013 - 04:22 PM
Ok. Thanks for your answers. My roboter case has got a alu base plate and the roundly sides consist of perspex . On base plate i want to screw a perspex plate and on this i would like to mounting the NP board. So at first i want to use metall standoffs to install the NP. But you are right maybe it is better to use nylon standoff. But when I 'm understandig right, in normal using where is no problem to mounting this board on a perspex plate.
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