In the US (for rest of world?) the "industry standard" seems to be 1/8" dia x 1/2"L banana plug. This would be for the "standard" ESD wrist strap, that is, NOT a continuously monitored ESD surveillance system (These types usually utilize a dual conductor phone plug). I have purchased from many different manufacturers of ESD wrist strap cords and they always come in with the 1/8"dia x 1/2"L banana plug.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 10:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: ESD wrist strap Thanks for your answers. As I mentionned in my query we already have a banana plug connector installed on our equipments and we do mark the equipment and have instructions included in the installation/maintenance guide. The question I was asked was regarding the type of connector to provide. The mechanical designers were asking if it was okay to continue using banana plug connectors or if another type of connector was more "preferred" in the industry. I have looked in TA-TSY-00078 an ancestor of GR-78 (still waiting for my copy of that one) as well as GR-1089 but I found only testing requirements in these. I also looked at the site pointed to me by Douglas Smith and found nothing requesting or indicating a preference for wriststrap connector type (20.20 standard only mandated the use of a wriststrap). Thus looking at your answers it does seem that there is no such thing as a "industry standard" or "industry preferred" type of wriststap connector to be installed on an ITE equipment used in a telecom environment (COs, CPEs...). Daniel Sicard Compliance Engineer / Ingénieur Certification Marconi Communications - Optical Network Corp Tel: 514-685-1737 Ext. 4631 Fax: 514-822-4054 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.marconi.com ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: [email protected] Michael Garretson: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: [email protected] Michael Garretson: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected]
