Wrist Strap Tester

A grounding wrist strap tester is a device that must be present in any professional electronic kit which is most commonly used by electrician , electronic technicians and PC repair technicians , because you can double check your wrist strap twice before you use it. Prolonged use of a wrist strap which is caused by stress upon the cord can lead into a break open inside the insulation , which may cause in a faulty performance of their intended function , you can't see if the insulation is broken , so the experts advice on this matter would be to use a wrist strap tester every time you use your wrist strap.

The cost of one of these device is an average one but it compensates by the features that it has and the very simple instruction that it has attached to it that everybody can follow so that every user can perform a high quality test.

The most common features that you can find at one of these products are: the test that it can perform , the simplicity of the push button test , it can test a variety of wrist straps which are equipped with a banana plug on the ground cord , portable , small size , cordless , provides test response via LED display fail/pass , audible fail indication , batter status indicator . 

The specifications on these devices are very important when you are purchasing a wrist strap tester  are : test parameters which you can adjust to your own specifications , the accuracy range ±5% , the humidity , the dimensions depending on your needs and field of expertise , storage temperature , operating temperature , operating voltage that it has implemented into it's design and the net weight.

Most of these devices have the three led indicator Red , Yellow and Green which represents the resistance value of the antistatic wrist strap that you are using .

How to use one of this devices?

First: equip your wrist strap as normal ; 

Second: thing you must do is to insert the banana which is based at the end of the cord into the jack that is based in front of the wrist strap tester ; 

Third: push the metal push button on the wrist strap tester ; 

Forth: The device starts measuring the from the skin of the user to the ground cord of the wrist strap; 

Fifth: the display of the tester will indicate the result of the test depending on the status of the device tested , Green for OK , Red for LOW , Yellow for High , added with and audible warning sound . If the result of the test will be indicated by Red or Yellow , the antistatic wrist strap should be discarded and replaced with a new one .

The importance of this device compensates for the acquisition price  which varies from 50-55$ depending on the amount purchased , which is not a high price to pay for your safety , for the safety of your own work and for the safety of the devices you are using , because using a mall functioning device may cause harm to you or the devices you are working with. If you want to learn more, you should visit http://www.antistaticwriststraps.net/.