I'm more worried about boards cracking, solder joints between chips / SMT components and the board cracking, etc. On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > From: George Herbert <george.herbert@xxxxxxxxx> > > snip > > > Some of my lawn-dart style manned capsule landers kept G-loads to 10 Gs > or > > less for the crew. That should be within tolerance bands for electronics, > > though one needs to look at the specific equipment. > > Back in the early 70s part of the testing protocol was to spin bonded > chips at 10,000 g upside down to test that the bonding wires didn't > come off. > > -- -george william herbert george.herbert@xxxxxxxxx