Questionable packaging

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• davejames Posts: 4,047

  2013-08-30 08:23 edited 2013-08-30 08:23

  ...what are they?
• RDL2004 Posts: 2,554

  2013-08-30 08:39 edited 2013-08-30 08:39

  Oops... I thought everybody here knew what these were.
  
  http://www.ebay.com/itm/10PCS-Arduino-NRF24L01-Wireless-Transceiver-Module-/251062580786
• erco Posts: 20,261

  2013-08-30 08:52 edited 2013-08-30 08:52

  I got mine for $10.50 shipped... same antistatic packaging! http://www.ebay.com/itm/310724613584
• LoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537

  2013-08-30 08:58 edited 2013-08-30 08:58

  I don't think anyone west of Guam has a clue about proper anit-static packaging. At least the high humidity from typhoons tends to prevent damage.
• Genetix Posts: 1,771

  2013-08-30 13:13 edited 2013-08-30 13:13

  In the old days most components were placed in poly-bags. I've seen both anti-static (red) and conductive (silver) packaging used in companies.
  I saw for flight controls the external connectors all had ESD caps on them.
• davejames Posts: 4,047

  2013-08-30 15:21 edited 2013-08-30 15:21

  RDL2004 wrote: »

  Oops... I thought everybody here knew what these were.
  
  http://www.ebay.com/itm/10PCS-Arduino-NRF24L01-Wireless-Transceiver-Module-/251062580786

  
  ...ohhhh - that 'splains the squiggly trace.
• kwinn Posts: 8,697

  2013-08-30 20:03 edited 2013-08-30 20:03

  Sometimes you have to wonder what they're thinking when they do things like that. Then again, that implies they think at all.
  
  I sent a laptop in for repairs a while back, carefully wrapped it with bubble wrap, used the original box, and made sure it fit snugly in the box. It came back in the same box with two sheets of bubble wrap and two plastic "pillow bags" for protection. The box had obviously been dropped since one of the pillow bags had burst and the corner of the screen casing had broken off. Can only wonder what idiot thinks an inflated plastic bag protects something that weighs as much as a laptop does from being dropped.
• Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091

  2013-08-30 20:31 edited 2013-08-30 20:31

  Yeah, I see that kind of stuff all the time when ordering for Propellerpowered. Pain in the rear, because it generally means testing, then repackaging. It's even worse sometime when ordering higher quantities.
  
  Jeff