Connecting Anti Static Mat To Ground

10 grounding cord with ring terminal ground.

Connecting anti static mat to ground.

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 anti static mats are safety devices and whoever manufacturers them are responsible for their protective function. Standard bench mat ground cord. If that clip comes off that whatever it is connected to you in this case does not have a reliable ground.

The location is identified with a sign labeling it a common ground so any new materials can easily be connected to it. Using a anti static mat and wristband to prevent esd. 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. Integral 1 x 10 6 ohm 1 megaohm resistor ground cord is 15 molded in male snap fastener.

Whether you connect the wrist strap to the mat or back to the central ground isn t that much of an issue. 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. 10 mm 3 8 female snap connection for mat. 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.

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 grounding cable is 6ft long allowing the maximum mobility no matter where you connect the anti static wrist strap. To ground anti static mats we insert a conductive snap on the corner of the anti static mat. The resistor slow down an electrostatic.

Best price in the nation. Pn 114 as now only 5 20 each. If an anti static mat is isolated from electrical ground by insulators carpets painted floors or tables you need to connect it to an electrical outlet by using a 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.

Use the cord to connect all electrically static dissipative floor mats to a building ground. The snap is where you will connect the grounding cable. Click here to. The solderless terminal can be connected to an electrical outlet using the screw in the outlet cover.

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. 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. Use with or without our free universal mat snap kit.