Testing Esd Mat

I do not test anti static mats but do test insulating mats for when we do silly things like working on live apparatus but i am looking for higher resistances than those expected for an esd mat.

Testing esd mat. How to test esd mats. The esd mat will discharge the static voltage fairly slowly to prevent the user from feeling the shock esd clothing will also to that but are also. They include an esd general purpose mat a wrist strap and ground cord. The esd mats are interconnected and one of them is connected to ground through a resistive socket or whatever it s called which must be several megaohms because my ohmeter cannot read it it.

This requires the use of a surface resistivity esd meter to perform both resistance top to top rtt and resistance to groundable point rtg tests. An antistatic mat uses a conductive plastic material to safely drain static electric charges away from a work surface. Dave is tired of hearing comments that esd work mats are conductive and effect your measurements. Esd mat test meter.

Esd general purpose mat kits made in usa. Hence the title ansi esd s4 1 worksurfaces resistance measurements. A meter that can accurately measure into the gigohm or billion ohm range is best for testing these mats. The high end of an esd mat s resistance will be beyond the measuring range of a typical multimeter.

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Rtt testing for esd resistance per ansi esd s4 1. The electrical resistance of a mat s surface generally falls in a range of 1 megohm or million ohms to 10 gigohms or billion ohms. These mats are made of a homogenous polymer mix. Since static exists on the surface of an object what we want to test anti static mats for is their ability to dissipate static on their top surface or work surface.

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