On 04/06/2014 09:24 PM, Fred Townsend wrote:
...I flipped over a new mat. It clearly said antistatic but the
> older mats didn’t have any labels and they looked different. > I took an ohmmeter, stabbing the probes in about an inch apart. > No reading.
You can't measure the mat resistance with an ohm meter. Or to be more accurate, if you get a reading on the meter, then the resistance is way too low. The resistance between a pair of meter probes would typically be in the range of 100's of megohms or more, which is too high to measure with a multimeter.
At the bottom of this message is a description of the test procedure I used: http://www.mail-archive.com/elecraft%40mailman.qth.net/msg94407.html Alan N1AL ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
