I have been been messing around with electronics on and off for a couple of years now. I was wondering how worried should I be about static.
I reciently built an amp that worked on the breadboard but when it was transfered to the pcb the output was dead as a doornail. The center of the circuit is a LM4752 stereo amp chip from National Semiconductor.
Has anyone had such problems that were related to static?
Should I got out and spend a couple hundred dollars on a ESD safe workstation?
I think, the failure is on PCB. I working 30 years without safe workstation and also CMOS circuits without any failure. But never wear synthetic clothes...