What is a Grounding Wrist Strap?

Wrist strap is also called hand strap. Eight-color sports wristbands represent eight healthy attitudes. In addition to daily life, wristbands also play a great role in industrial production. The wristbands used in production are called antistatic wristbands. In the medical industry, inpatients in hospitals also wear wristbands for identification purposes.

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An anti-static wrist strap is a type of wrist strap worn by workers on the wrist to release body static electricity. It is often used in the production line of electronic products. Divided into corded and cordless. Anti-static wrist strap (with cord) It consists of elastic band, snap button, spring cord, protection resistor and plug or chuck. The inner layer of the elastic band is knitted with anti-static yarn, and the outer layer is knitted with ordinary yarn. When the worker wears the wrist strap on the wrist, fasten the buckle, and the other end plug or chuck is grounded, so that the body's static electricity can be effectively discharged.

After using the anti-static wrist strap for a period of time, because the wrist strap is continuously stretched and bent during this process, the metal wires inside some cheap wrist straps will break off and thus will not have the effect of anti-static. It is not known that it has failed, and caused electrostatic accidents after touching static-sensitive parts.

1. The inner part of the wrist part of a good anti-static wrist strap is made of silver wire. The more turns, the better the conductivity. ^[1]

2. The PU strap connected to the wrist strap is stronger than the PVC cord and has better resilience;

3. Internal material of ground wire, preferably copper wire;

4. The bending times of the ground wire part and the wrist strap connection part can be detected by the corresponding equipment.

It is recommended to obtain the corresponding third-party test report from the buyer.