PCB x-ray question..............

NEgO MANIAC · Nov 20, 2006

I plan on taking my pcbs with me back home and want to check them in as baggage. Will the x-ray machines at the airport have any effect on them?

kernow · Nov 20, 2006

I doubt it , my laptop went through fine

RGP · Nov 20, 2006

And when you ship PCB's overseas, do you think they get x rayed at the airport?

channelmaniac · Nov 20, 2006

RGP said:
And when you ship PCB's overseas, do you think they get x rayed at the airport?

Actually they usually don't. They don't have the time or resources to xray everything being shipped - but that's supposed to be a deep dark secret.

RGP · Nov 20, 2006

Don't worry I brought some PCB's back from Tokyo & they were fine, defo got xrayed along with my lappy.

channelmaniac · Nov 20, 2006

Basically, if you treat them as carry-on they *will* get X-rayed. If you pack them in your luggage it's a crapshoot.

However, no matter what you do with them you have more risk from the gorillas at the airport that pack the baggage into the airplane holds than you do from the X-rays affecting chips.

Oh, and lets not forget the even higher risk of your idiot fellow passengers shoving a suitcase on top of your bag or box of circuit boards in the overhead bins. I carried a metal detector in a soft case ONCE on an airplane. After that I bought a hard carry case. Money well spent.

RJ

taitai · Nov 20, 2006

would it be a problem if you had a suitcase full of windows EEPROMs?

themisterfalcon · Nov 20, 2006

You should just ship them back ahead of time to a trusted friend or family member. Save your suitcase room for toys and other goodies

billd420 · Nov 20, 2006

taitai said:
would it be a problem if you had a suitcase full of windows EEPROMs?

It shouldn't effect them... windowed EProms require UV light to erase them, not xray waves. Don't quote me on that, but I'm pretty possitive..

ttooddddyy · Nov 20, 2006

billd420 said:
It shouldn't effect them... windowed EProms require UV light to erase them, not xray waves. Don't quote me on that, but I'm pretty possitive..

gamma rays will have no effect on (e)eproms, it depends on the power however, an airport security security machine would have no effect at all imho.

Xavier · Nov 22, 2006

Ive shoved my gameboy in the xray machine a few times and lost my save game file.

alec · Nov 22, 2006

Well, I've put carts through the xray machine, and the PCB's inside of them came out fine. If they are larger sized gameboards however, I would do like Dub suggests and just ship them to your family, your only supposed to bring so much carry on luggage with you.

PCB x-ray question..............

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