Stretch Velcro Closure Heel Grounders

Price range: $3.56 through $6.38

Our Stretch Velcro Closure Heel Grounders combine a premium, non-marking tire-grade rubber sole with a flexible elastic hook-and-loop strap, delivering a snug, slip-free fit on nearly any shoe size. Engineered for reliable path-to-ground static dissipation, each grounder features a comfortable silver-knitted nylon ribbon and a built-in 1 Meg Ohm safety resistor for optimal personnel protection.

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SKU: N/A Categories: ESD Grounding, Static Control

Product Details

Our Stretch Velcro Closure Heel Grounders are designed for maximum comfort, durability, and reliable static dissipation in electronics manufacturing and ESD-controlled environments. Featuring a high-quality, non-marking tire-grade rubber ground strap, these heel grounders provide a continuous path-to-ground to prevent electrostatic discharge (ESD) from damaging sensitive components.

Key Features:

Stretch Velcro Closure: The elastic hook-and-loop strap stretches comfortably to ensure a secure, snug fit on various shoe sizes and styles, preventing slipping during use.
Dual-Color Options: Available in bright Blue or Orange velcro straps, making compliance verification quick and easy for supervisors on the floor.
Non-Marking Conductive Rubber: Engineered with premium tire-grade black carbon rubber that leaves no black scuff marks on your treated ESD floors or mats.
Conductive Ribbon: Equipped with a conductive silver-knitted nylon ribbon that easily tucks into your sock or shoe to make reliable electrical contact with your skin.
Built-in Safety Resistor: Features an integrated 1 Meg Ohm resistor sewn into the grounding ribbon to protect personnel by slowing down electrostatic discharge.

Applications:

Ideal for use on conductive or dissipative flooring, anti-static mat rolls, and ESD workstation floor matting. Perfect for electronics assembly, testing labs, and other ESD-compliant facilities.

Product Specifications

Dimension	Specifications
Heel Cup Ground Contact	ESD Resistance is 10⁴ to 10⁶ Ohms
Heel Cup Material	Reinforced Black Carbon Loaded Rubber
Skin Ground Contact	Knitted Ribbon with Silver Conductive Monofilament attached to the Heel Cup is tucked into sock
Resistor	1 Meg Ohm Resistor is sewn into silver knitted ribbon
Ankle Adjustment	Stretch Velcro Blue and Orange Straps
Charge Decay	5000 volts to zero in less than 2 seconds

How Heel Grounders Work

Heel Grounders are a specific type of shoe grounder that use a conductive black carbon rubber heel to ground the shoe.

Materials like wood and wool are also insulating. Walking up and down a wool carpet with tennis shoes can easily cause us to hold static on our skin and clothes.

When we go to handle electronics we want to make sure we are not electrically isolated, but instead electrically bonded (also known as “being grounded”). This allows those static electrons to discharge from our clothes and skin to the ground beneath our feet. Wearing a heel grounder connected to an electrically bonded floor or floor mat is a common way to “ground” large assembly lines.

The bonded surface can be a coated floor, an anti static mat roll laid out as “floor runner”, or a workstation floor mat.

Connected to the tire-grade rubber heel is a conductive silver thread that tucks into your sock. The thread draws static electricity from your skin’s surface so that it grounds you and the shoe as one unit.

The way this works is that as the heel grounders make contact with electrically bonded surfaces (mats or floors) the electricity that was static on your shoes and skin is dissipated- literally falls into the Earth under the force of gravity.

1 Meg Ohm Resistors

Made with a 1 Meg Ohm Resistor sewn into it, the silver knitted ribbon slows down an electrostatic discharge event (ESD) from a highly charged ungrounded surface from discharging instantaneously through the ribbon.

Typically a 1 Meg Ohm Resistor slows down an electrostatic discharge (ESD) a few more milliseconds than if it were not present.