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ESD flooring prevents a build-up of static electrical charges in the human body by dissipates charges on the ground. This is a permanent solution that delivers perfect long term results because it is grounded. The safety of people and related equipments are guaranteed.
ESD flooring is becoming more and more popular nowadays, to protect human and equipments.
But there are still many people will ask what is ESD, what is ESD flooring.
In this article, we will give you ultimate guide of what is ESD flooring.
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ESD means Electrostatic Discharge
Essentially what we are talking about is the ability for a person to move their body or they walk on a floor, they generate a charge, store that charge and when they actually release that charge to another object, whether it is an electronic component, a person, a doorknob, that’s where the electrostatic discharge takes place.
When most people don’t realize about static is that in order to feel a static discharge, you are generating close to 350volts. The problem we have when protecting electronics, it is electronic devices are actually sensitive to as little as 5 or 10 volts of static. That means the problem we are trying to cure is invisible. And because people tend to view the world through their own eyes they don’t know they have a static problem because they are not getting a shock. Unfortunately, electronic components as sensitive as they are, are being destroyed, degraded, and damaged without us even realizing it.
A cracking sweater, hair that sticks straight out from your head, a small electric shock from a door handle; we are all familiar with those moments when there is a discharge of static electricity. This phenomenon is known as electrostatic discharge or ESD. ESD often occurs in very common everyday situations like walking on a carpet in plastic old shoes. When this happens mainly negative electrical charges are picked up and distributed across the entire surface of the object or body if contact. Then made with another conductive body or with ground, this charge suddenly flows off. Depending on the number of volts involved, it will be possible to feel, hear and see this phenomenon in the in the form of a spark or a flash. Voltages of over 10,000 volts can easily arise in modern workplaces and although this would pose no danger to people, it could mean the end of electronic devices. Electrostatic discharge sensitive devices are known as ESD devices and are identified by this symbol as miniaturization gathers pace such devices are becoming more and more sensitive to ESD. The extremely thin conducting paths in active electronic components like IC are often unable to withstand the high ESD voltages involved. Some of the damage sustained in this way is clearly visible but some can only be seen under an electronic microscope.
These different types of damage are referred to as direct faults and latent faults. With a direct fault the device is either visibly damaged or its function is damage, this account for 30% of all damage. This direct faults are relatively easy to identify and can be remedied at a comparatively low cost. The damage of latent fault is much higher. These faults cannot be detected when the devices or components are delivered since they will still work. Only once they are operating might failures arise which can have severe consequences. This can result in huge costs due to servicing or repair work. Spaces that are free of ESD provide effective protection against damage caused by electrostatic discharge. Within these electrostatic discharge protected areas, all necessary precautionary measures are taken to ensure that work can be carried out with electrostatic sensitive devices without the risk of damaging them. The only way to safeguard quality and the company’s success in the long term is to take the professional handling of electronic devices seriously.
ESD flooring prevents a build-up of static electrical charges in the human body by dissipates charges on the ground. This is a permanent solution that delivers perfect long term results because it is grounded. The safety of people and related equipments are guaranteed.
ESD flooring can come in almost any form. So when we talk about ESD flooring, we could be talking about vinyl tile, vinyl sheet, carpet with carbon fibers, epoxy with carbon fibers, rubber flooring, and almost any form of flooring that you can imagine we have a way to render it into static free floor.
Among all the ESD flooring, ESD vinyl flooring is the most best for lower cost, stable quality, durable & scratch resistant, slip resistant, waterproof, fireproof, long life expectancy, antibacterial, and excellent ESD performance. And ESD vinyl sheet is better than ESD vinyl tile cause most of the time ESD flooring is install for commercial usage and it is very big area so sheet is easier to install and seamless.
If you look at the ESD vinyl flooring carefully, both ESD vinyl tile & ESD vinyl sheet; you will see there is little veins in the flooring, those veins contain carbon which is a conductor. If a static charge touches the outside of the flooring, the charge is transported though the veins to an adhesive underneath flooring.
But really the biggest consideration is safety. One of the things we have discovered in our audits of flooring installations is a lot of times people are putting flooring in that’s not safe. The flooring is too conductive, the problem with something that’s too conductive means people are at risk. The floor has to be properly grounded, has to be tested after it is installed. And we have to know with certainty that the conductivity of the floor meets certain OSHA and NFPA safety standards.
It is necessary to install ESD vinyl flooring if there is any static discharge.
And please do it professionally in both material selection and flooring installation.
ESD vinyl flooring will be your best choice if available. Especially ESD vinyl sheet flooring.
This article is written by Longda Flooring (www.longdaflooring.com), a leading vinyl sheet flooring manufacturer from China.
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