Q: What is the difference betwen two layer and three layer ESD PVC Mat, and which one will be advisable for flooring? A: We have a variety of bench and flooring mats and runners. The two and three layer mats would generally refer to our bench or table mats. Our...
Q: What is the difference between anti-static and static dissipative floors? Which floor will be better to use if I’m going to have an electronic assembly line? A: Anti-static is not the proper term to use for ESD flooring. Anti-Static refers to the ability to...
Q: What does ASTM F2413-05 compliant mean? A: I’ve got the document from the American Society for Testing and Material Standards (ASTM) in front of me now. They sent me a copyrighted document on June 2nd of 2005. It’s significance and use section is pretty...
Q: What should be the required Ground Rod-to-earth resistance? is it less than 2ohms or less than 25ohms? A: I am going to consult my document on Grounding-For the Protection of Electrostatics Discharge Susceptible Items (ANSI/ESD S6.1-2005), an ESD Association...
Q: We always face a problem of selling your anti-static/dissipative vinyl floors to our clients. What is the solution for client satisfaction if they want to make sure the vinyl floor is anti-static or not and if the vinyl floor works as a dissipate of current. A: The...
Q: We have an ESD tile floor in our testing lab. During a recent AS9100 audit we were asked why we don’t use wrist straps. Since our ISO9100 & 2 certified calibration provider only uses them when they have to certify the repair of a system and we don’t...
Q: We are an explosives manufacturer and are looking to repaint our conductive flooring. We subscribe to the standard NFPA requirements for conductive flooring. What is the best and most economical product to apply? Consider that the environment would be expected to...
Q: How important is humidity in the control of electrostatic problems? What is the approximate decrease in electrostatic control if the humidity is reduced from 50% to 35% RH? A: I have linked a white paper below for your review that puts this topic into perspective....
Q: I have one question/problem that I would like to ask regarding an experiment to test a bench top air ionizer. From the attached documents, there are 2 graphs of decay time versus effective distance, one for decay time on negative charges and the other one for decay...
Q: We are removing old vinyl tile and replacing with ESD protective tile. We are wondering if ESD conductive or dissipative is best. Our business is dehydration baking, final functional testing and packaging semiconductor IC’s with design circuits typically in...
