High-Visibility ESD Protection
Ensure static compliance effortlessly with these vibrant Lime Green Heel Grounders. Designed for standard footwear in electronics manufacturing and static-sensitive environments, they offer reliable grounding with a touch of visibility.
Key Features:
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High-Visibility Lime Green: Bright color makes compliance checks quick and easy from a distance.
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Adjustable Stretch Velcro: Features a comfortable, secure Velcro closure strap that easily adjusts to fit most shoe sizes.
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Premium Tire-Grade Rubber: Built with non-marking, highly durable conductive rubber for long-lasting performance.
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Built-In Safety: Equipped with an industry-standard 1 Meg Ohm resistor for operator safety.
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.
When used with a grounded floor, anti static mat roll laid out as “floor runner”, or a workstation floor mat the shoe grounder dissipates static from you into the electrically bonded surface it makes contact with.
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.
