Connecting Anti Static Mat To Ground

The inside of an anti static wrist strap is either silver suffused nylon or metal banded to capture static directly from your skin s surface at a conductive rate.

Connecting anti static mat to ground. When building a static free or esd protected work station all fixtures and surfaces are connected to the same common ground typically a metal pole or bar in a central location. A 4mm stud snap protrudes from the outside surface of the strap where you will connect to a coil cord typically good for 50 000 flexes that has a 1 megohm resistor built into it. Pn 114 as now only 5 20 each. Use with or without our free universal mat snap kit.

10 grounding cord with ring terminal ground. Whether you connect the wrist strap to the mat or back to the central ground isn t that much of an issue. Using a anti static mat and wristband to prevent esd. The radio shack anti static mat and wrist strap says on its instructions that you should plug the strap into the mat and then plug the mat to any available ground its next helpful instruction goes on to say or you can remove the alligator clip and plug the grounding cord s banana plug into the round ground hole on a standard ac outlet.

The connection will snap to one of the buttons on the corner of the mat and go to a grounding source such as a socket. To the metal chassis of the electronic device on one end and the other to your wrist or to the mat if unable to ground the. The resistor slow down an electrostatic. Use the cord to connect all electrically static dissipative floor mats to a building ground.

The only real concern i ve had in the past is when i ve use wrist straps that have an alligator clip to connect to ground. Constructed with a 1 mega ohm resister for safety. The grounding cable is 6ft long allowing the maximum mobility no matter where you connect the anti static wrist strap. Click here to.

If that clip comes off that whatever it is connected to you in this case does not have a reliable ground. The anti static mats are safety devices and whoever manufacturers them are responsible for their protective function. The solderless terminal can be connected to an electrical outlet using the screw in the outlet cover. Used for grounding tabletop anti static mats.

The snap is where you will connect the grounding cable. You can also detach the cable from the strap if you want to take a break and then come back just connect the cord again and start working. The location is identified with a sign labeling it a common ground so any new materials can easily be connected to it. Standard bench mat ground cord.

Integral 1 x 10 6 ohm 1 megaohm resistor ground cord is 15 molded in male snap fastener. To ground anti static mats we insert a conductive snap on the corner of the anti static mat. 10 mm 3 8 female snap connection for mat.