{"id":186,"date":"2008-12-05T10:16:14","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T15:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esdpros.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2008-12-05T10:16:14","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T15:16:14","slug":"how-important-is-humidity-in-the-control-of-electrostatic-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/how-important-is-humidity-in-the-control-of-electrostatic-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"How important is humidity in the control of electrostatic problems?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> <span class=\"question\">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?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"question\"><strong>A:<\/strong> I have linked a white paper below for your review that puts this topic into perspective. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>This data seems most relevant in this case, because it points out how well humidity from 30% and up reduced tribo-charging, but not good enough for the thin-film applications. Notice that voltages of up to 1.5 kV are still generated with ease in an 80% environment! Dropping from 50% to 35% might be beneficial to prevent corrosion, but still require an EPA (ESD PROTECTED AREA) with a total ESD protection system.<br \/>\n<a title=\"White Paper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/techdocs\/questions\/Humidity%20tech%20question%20042205.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download White Paper (PDF Reader Required)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. This data seems most relevant in this case, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16],"tags":[85,113,144],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esd-protection","category-humidity","tag-esd-protection","tag-humidity","tag-tribo-charging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gndzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}