Motorola MVME162P-244 Series, Installation And Use Manual

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Getting Started
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Caution
Avoid touching areas of integrated circuitry; static discharge can damage
circuits.
ESD Precautions
This section applies to all hardware installations you may perform that
involve the MVME162P4 board.
Motorola strongly recommends the use of an antistatic wrist strap and a
conductive foam pad when you install or upgrade the board. Electronic
components can be extremely sensitive to ESD. After removing the board
from the chassis or from its protective wrapper, place the board flat on a
grounded, static-free surface, component side up. Do not slide the board
over any surface.
If no ESD station is available, you can avoid damage resulting from ESD
by wearing an antistatic wrist strap (available at electronics stores). Place
the strap around your wrist and attach the grounding end (usually a piece
of copper foil or an alligator clip) to an electrical ground. An electrical
ground can be a piece of metal that literally runs into the ground (such as
an unpainted metal pipe) or a metal part of a grounded electrical appliance.
An appliance is grounded if it has a three-prong plug and is plugged into a
three-prong grounded outlet. You cannot use the chassis in which you are
installing the MVME162P4 itself as a ground, because the enclosure is
unplugged while you work on it.