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Yes,
Don't use them anywhere near a hipot tester or anything that could possibly
place a high voltage/current on an object you might accidentally touch. Goes
for heel or wrist straps, too. I have seen what this can do to a conductive
garment... It's not pretty. Just imagine yourself inside a dissipative smock
accidentally touching a high current source. The garment basically burns
itself up with you inside it!

As far as the need to have the smock connected to a direct path to ground
(flooring, etc.), I think I would need to see empirical data proving that it
makes a difference. I believe most smocks have enough surface area to
essentially bleed off or dissipate ESD charges before they can do damage. I
have a hard time believing that a dissipative smock with no direct ground
contact becomes a miniature capacitor...

Dale Ritzen
Quality Manager
Austin Manufacturing Services

-----Original Message-----
From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Dehoyos, Ramon
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 9:27 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [TN] FW: January 2007 ESD Systems.com Newsletter


                 Technetters:
                 Does any body have an opinion on grounded Smocks?
                Ramon

       

 

 

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Banana Jack
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 2:30 AM
To: Lusby, Jack R.
Subject: January 2007 ESD Systems.com Newsletter

 



 

Here is the latest ESD news from ESD Systems.com:

http://www.ESDSystems.com/Newsletters/v10issue1.html

 


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