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Need low resistance ESD shoes for staff in electronics production

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Hello,
We need ESD shoes for our staff. We need them to make as low resistance as possible from the skin of the foot, to the sole of the shoe.
We don’t want to use footstraps as the staff have to keep taking them on and off as they go outside and back inside etc.
We simply cant find any. Do you know of some?
 

Do a search for "ESD shoes UK", it turns up lots of options from lots of sources, including conductive socks and conductive shoe lockers if they have to change them before entering or leaving.

Brian.
 
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Hi,

ESD shoes usually are high ohmic.
treez asks for low ohmic.

I don´t know why he asks for this, because there is a good reason why the ESD shoes are not low resistance: --> Safety when touching live wires.

Klaus
 
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thanks yes, but the resistance through our esd floor is so high that there will be no safety problem if the resistance through the shoe is low....the total resistance through the body->shoe->esd floor tile -> conductive strip beneath esd floor tile -> earth is 70 megohms when an esd footstrap is worn......so even with bare feet (for example), it will be about 69megohms

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however, there are no cheap, low resistance esd shoes.
We are looking for less than £15 per pair of shoes...nothing exists
 

Hi,

Then bare feet is the cheapest solution.

If the minimum resistance now if 69MOhms, then an additional 1M of typical ESD shoes won't hurt.
I vote to use regular ESD shoes.

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