Sherlock Ohms: Case of the Strap Grounds Field Failures

Sherlock Ohms is a regular feature of Design News that presents submissions from readers about troubleshooting challenges and how they were solved. "Strap Grounds Field Failures" is the adventure of a design engineer dealing with a customer who's undisclosed design change caused debilitating electrostatic discharges in a load cell circuit.

Posted January 2013

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