As we’ve talked about previously, often the sources of static electricity go completely unnoticed. This is because we humans can’t even detect a static charge until it gets up to about 3,000 volts. The problem is that sensitive electronics can be damaged...
Static electricity, the phenomenon responsible for electrostatic discharge, is responsible for everything from simple, often harmless effects like a child’s hair standing up on a playground slide to much more dangerous incidents like fires at the gas pump and...
Electrostatic discharge, the rapid (and often unforeseen) flow of electricity that results when two electrically charged objects come into contact with one another, is an incredibly common phenomenon that wreaks havoc to the tune of billions of dollars each year in...
We had 5,000 feet of VCT demo and 8,000 to install; ESD static conductive vinyl. Point to Point Resistance in ohms average; 3.71E5 RTG in ohms; 3.59E5 Compliant to ANSI/ESD S7.1-2005 via ANSI/ESD S20.20-2007
Q: Can we make our own ESD Tools? A: Perhaps. Since common hand tools can be at risk of creating an ESD event via CDM, what do we do about it? I was able to treat the screw driver in my last installation with our ESD anti-stat chemical Shock Stop. We also have...
Q: What is the significance of the time to the charge generation in tribocharging? Why is it that in tribocharging, there is a big charge produce in short period of time while small charge will be generated at long time? ( at the same force) (I took the liberty here...
Q: Are ESD shoes and Conductive shoes the same thing? A: There are two types of ESD shoes, Static Dissipative and Static Conductive. The Static Conductive shoe will guarantee a combined resistance of personnel and footwear of less than 1.0E6 Ohms. I have a...
Q: I have read the White Paper 1: A Case for Lowering Component Level HBM/MM ESD Specifications and Requirements and found the ESD Control Programs and Resulting Data (Chapter 1, Page 20-23) particularly interesting. Assuming a production environment with ESD...
Q: How do we test ESD conductive or dissipative gloves? A: The glove industry offers gloves for the protection of ESD sensitive items by using materials that will provide specific measurable “intrinsic electrical resistance of gloves and finger cots” as per ANSI/ESD...
Q: Does anybody know the reason behind the upper limit resistance (3,5×10E7Ohms)of a grounding system (personnel+conductive shoes+conductive flooring)? Why not 1×10E8Ohms? We have tried many waxes and all of them either give an overall reading for the system that is...
