Reliable performance of ESD matting and ESD wrist straps are critical for your product's integrity and reliability. Yet hand testing and hand logging wrist straps and table top material performance is a cumbersome, labor intensive paperwork nightmare. Use of our ESD wrist strap and ESD bench mat monitors continuously verifies the effectiveness of your ESD protected workstation, simultaneously satisfies ISO logging requirements and insures outstanding product quality. Let's face it: Wrist straps can fail, ESD mat cords can become detached. How much compromised product could you build before you catch the problem?
ESD constant monitors, the good, the bad and the UGLY: Now-a-days there are a variety of monitors to choose from. Many require expensive hard to find dual wire wrist straps, provide a pulsed verification a mere 10% of the time or are overseas knockoffs so cheaply made that FRAGILE should be in their part number! NOT SO with our monitors! These monitors provide 100% continuous verification, don't require special wrist straps and these American Made monitors are designed to exacting close tolerance specifications backed by the strongest warranty in the industry! Most monitors are extremely sensitive to electrical noise and insulation leaks from products like nearby high voltage power supplies, neon lights, electrical motors, etc. RESULTS: irritating false alarms. THE SOLUTION: new advanced noise filtration technology helps control this phenomena better than any other monitor in the industry!
Single Threshold: Test the most typical failure modes; compromised skin to strap contact, worn strap material and lost or compromised cords and connections (high resistance levels = alarm).
Dual Threshold: Test the typical failure modes above AND test for lost minimum resistance (IE the failure of the resistor in the wrist strap). Loss of the wrist strap safety resistor can constitute a safety hazard for the operator (especially when working with high voltage power supplies and equipment). In addition, lost resistance can cause an immediate discharge of electrostatic potential (rather than controlled) potentially as damaging as not eliminating the charge in the first place!
Designed to reduce cumbersome logging, save money and fit the requirements of the most stringent of ESD Programs these dependable ESD monitors provide verification of a single wrist strap (model 010), a single wrist strap AND ESD tri-layer or conductive bench mat (model ST 020) or DUAL wrist straps AND ESD conductive or tri layer table top mats (model ST or DT 030).
NOTE: The 020 and 030 series monitors are designed to work in the static conductive range of matting but work well with static dissipative tri layer matting (like our and UltraComfort or UltraTough) or dual layer matting with a conductive bottom layer and static dissipative top layer (like our ElectraTherm ESD rubber matting). If using tri layer static dissipative matting the unit (and ground connection from the matting) must make contact with the conductive inner layer of the esd mat. To insure this contact use either our push and cinch or mat snap kitor punch a very tight hole in mat prior to matting the fastener. Many customers hardwire the bench cable to the fastener (the unit is supplied standard with an alligator attachment) or use the optional snap fastener attachment.
