How to Electrically Ground your ElectraGuard ESD
Epoxy
(this grounding method also works great for esd floor
finish and esd flooring).
Your ESD thin set epoxy flooring system must be grounded to allow the
electrostatic potential to flow to ground. In many cases this grounding
takes place when the coating comes into contact with a steel column or
any grounded portions of you building superstructure. In the case where
a reliable grounding connection via the aforementioned method is in
doubts utilize the following:
1) Locate AC power outlet. Remove electrical face plate cover
(typically plastic). Starting at a location about ½” beneath the outlet
cutout (on the drywall) run a piece of our 2" wide aluminum foil
ground tape down wall and onto floor about 2 or 3 inches.
Note: for a great looking attachment cut any wall base, peel back base
and run strip behind re-glued base.
2) Run
another aluminum foil strip (about 36” long piece) over this 2" or 3"
piece that you've placed on the floor. Run this strip parallel to
the wall and stick to the flooring substrate (concrete, vct, etc).
3) Lightly
wipe down the aluminum strip with standard rubbing alcohol and a clean
piece of paper towel. Allow to dry. Paint over this strip with a
thin layer of ElectraGuard ESD epoxy.
4) Replace plastic AC electrical face plate cover with
a metal face
plate cover making sure metal face plate cover contacts the aluminum strip.
5) Your floor is now grounded.
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The way it works: Charge flows across the
ElectraGuard to strip placed parallel to the wall. Charge goes up
strip (on wall) through metal face plate cover and is grounded via
center screw of AC electrical face plate cover. Note: The
ElectraGuard system only requires 2 ground connections for small floors
(under 3,000 sf) and one additional ground for every 4,000 sf
thereafter. More grounding attachments
will not raise the conductivity of your flooring system.
