Looks like that gadget is supposed to give you an alarm rather than removing the static charge. And if you have built up enough static charge to develop corona, most of your nearby sensitive IC-s may have gone pins-up! Have fun, Ahne. -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Rich Lasko Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 09:32 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] Question on a Wrist Strap Hello everyone, I was asked a question this AM that I do not know the answer to and I was hoping to get some of your thoughts. One of my employees brought in a "Cordless" Antistatic Wrist Strap made by Botech. I guess the theory behind it works on the Corona principle???? I'm not familiar with that principle. Has anyone had any experience with this type of wrist strap? Is it effective? How do you test it to verify its' effectiveness? It would appear to me that this would not be effective or appropriate due to the fact that everything else in the ESD protected work area is grounded to a different potential (in our case electrical ground). Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Rich Lasko --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 -----------------------------------------------------