Mosfets are they that sensitive? like if i touch its pins then will they be destroyed

[diysmartdeep21]

Mosfets are they very sensitive?
what i mean to say that do they get destroy if i touch them with fingers?

I want to make amps using this but as far as this was my doubt and ive never laid my hands on this MOSFETS coz im afraid of destroying while handling that....

what do u say....?

[Netlist]

In your case, I enter the site’s search engine and in the row
‘Search for items including these words:’ I would enter ‘mosfet static’. Then click below on 'Show results as posts', leave everything else alone and hit the ‘Perform search’ button.
Now try that, do some reading and report your findings.

/Hugo

[bremen nacht]

Yes, mosfets are easily damaged by static, as are many modern devices. Sometimes the damage doesn't show up til the devices have been working for hours, days or months; the worst sort of damage.

It isn't hard to take precautions though - get yourself an antistatic mat and wristband, connect them and your soldering iron to earth and keep your cutters, pliers etc on the mat in between tweezes and snips.

http://tinyurl.com/4vl92

if that's too expensive, you could use a sheet of alumin(i)um foil on your table - proper antistatic mats are better though as they don't conduct enough to short low voltage circuits lying on the mat.

good luck, don't be scared!

[diysmartdeep21]

Breman ur are very nice and u have good helping nature and ur not like Netlist. guy...who said that just go to google and try there...( ooooooooh we dont know that... aah ) ok NetList i think first before u post anything like this think that if anybody says this to you like go to google and search urself...

and one more thing if we get the all the answers at google then what is the need to come to the diy audio forums ? we ask u becoz we newbies we treat you like experts and genius people who have tons of experience and we think that u may give the right advice ... but uuuuuuu see how u are hurting newbies..

Just think about urself before posting something like this...

Be helpful in nature....

[Netlist]

Don't blame me because I explained you how to search.
The power lies in the possession to find what you want and need. Helplessness is the opposite.
We could spoon-feed you all you want, in the end you will have learned nothing.

/Hugo

[richie00boy]

Originally posted by diysmartdeep21
Breman ur are very nice and u have good helping nature and ur not like Netlist. guy...who said that just go to google and try there...( ooooooooh we dont know that... aah ) ok NetList i think first before u post anything like this think that if anybody says this to you like go to google and search urself...

and one more thing if we get the all the answers at google then what is the need to come to the diy audio forums ? we ask u becoz we newbies we treat you like experts and genius people who have tons of experience and we think that u may give the right advice ... but uuuuuuu see how u are hurting newbies..

Just think about urself before posting something like this...

Be helpful in nature....

The nice Mr Netlist (and he is nice, if you would bother) was actually telling you how to search diyAudio not Google. So your point is in the garbage. Just try to use the search function of the forum before you post, that's all we ask. You may well be suprised at what turns up

[georgehifi]

Standing back and reading the flack that's going back and forth. To me I can see that the original question was a valid one and and a good thread starter.
Then on the other foot Netlist and richie00boy have a valid point also. Though they should not include the word (we) they should use (i)
I looked at this thread as a source of information, not to tell diysmartdeep21 to go search for himself.
So in future Netlist and richie00boy do'nt use (we) as i did'nt mind the original topic. Use (I).

Cheers All, George

[AndrewT]

Hi,
I have started to post a few questions on this forum and each time I have to confirm a search.
Well I have searched and found hundreds of references and even taken time to read many (I cannot claim most) and I have NEVER found what I needed to know. Maybe I am no good at searching the right phrases. Can someone give me lessons?
I've done it again, a question without a search (it's easier this way).

[Peter Daniel]

Both of the last two posts present very good point. This forum has so much accumulated information, that if we all were skilled in searching, there would be probably not much reason to start new threads.

So what, that something has been discussed already? Maybe the point was not made, or the new discussion will bring more light on a given subject. I also noticed that threads that were started 2 years ago, even when resurrected, for some reason never bring interesting discussion again. That's what threads are all about: they are being started, have certain lifespan, and then they die. The new ones (even when regarding same topics), are always different.

Getting back to the subject at hand, as long as you make sure that you will not produce static (like for instance you touch a grounded object before handling mosfets) and your working area is pretty much static free, you shouldn't have problem with touching the pins. I never managed to damaged a mosfet this way.

[Eva]

In my experience, power MOSFETs and IGBTs with big die sizes and several nF input capacitances are very tolerant to moderate human body static discharges

However, small signal MOSFETs and CMOS ICs are not so tolerant, but they tend to include protective diodes internally

I've tested some power devices after handling them and soldering them without precautions and no gate leakage was measurable

Bigger gate structures are apparently capable of whitstanding bigger static discharges