Customer Reviews

Cables Unlimited ACC-1410C Wireless Clean Room Approved Anti-Static Wrist Strap

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This product is a hoax, a ground strap only works by connecting the wearer with earth ground. This device does not do that.

Dear Amazon,

People trust products "sold by Amazon.com". To keep it this way, please consider somebody with a high-school diploma look into this one, and categorize it together with weight-loss magnets and tin-foil hats.

I live in the desert and have a real problem with static electricity. I shorted out the controls on a hi-tech coffee maker with a static spark as I touched it. The wrist band has been no help with this problem. It only helps with the small static shocks that sometimes happen with the ear buds from my iPod. I don't recommend you purchase this if you are assembling any circuits.

I purchased this product, because I am in a computer repair class. I didn't like to have to be attacted to the computer, like you have to do with other antistatic wrist bands.
The first day I used it, I didn't have any ESD. I really thought this was the product that I was looking for. Unfortunetly the last 2 days, while wearing it, I have recieved numerous ESD, which could have destroyed the computers I was working on.
It seems that that ESD is less when I wear it, but it is still there. I am so very disappointed in this.
Anyone who purchases one, should really test it out for a few days, to make sure it is working for you.

I recently purchased a wireless antistatic wrist strap. Before I purchased the item I did a quick check to see if it worked. I found a couple of comments that it did work, but you had to give it time to dissipate the static charge. (Real, fake, or knowledgeable, I don't know.) I liked the idea of no connecting wire to hamper you, so I bought it. I also purchased an antistatic mat and two conventional antistatic wrist straps.

Upon receiving the item I checked again. This is what I found on Wikipedia.

Wireless or Dissipative wrist straps are available, but they are widely considered as pseudoscientific hoax products. The claims of the operating principles vary from "Ion Neutralization, Skin Effect, Point Discharge and Corona Discharge Effect" to "Selglard electric halo principles.

[...] Amazon deleted the Wikipedia web address. Just Google 'wireless antistatic wrist strap,' and select the one from Wikipedia.

My opinion is that this wireless antistatic strap is unproven. If they have been around awhile and are still unproven, you can pretty well count on it being a hoax. If they worked, every technician who dislikes being connected to something by a wire (and that means pretty much every technician) would be wearing one of these. I have never seen a technician wearing one.

99% chance this wireless antistatic strap does not work effectively if at all.

I have large wrists. This has a twisty flex band that is quite comfortable on, and it seems to keep me free of static buildup without need for a grounding strap. Once it's on, you don't notice it at all.

So much better than the stupid wristbands that you have to attach to stuff. I put it on, wait 10 minutes, and then go do computer stuff. I have a big wrist and it is comfortable.

Product Overview/Tour:
The stretchy band is made of metal, and the blue block is made of plastic. The screw near the ANTI-STATIC sticker is for decoration and doesn't hold anything together or provide any other use. The sticker hides a nut that a screw goes into from the bottom/inside of the bracelet. From what it seems, the plastic block is also used in one of Cables Unlimited's other anti-static straps.


Pros:
More comfortable than any other static bracelet that I've worn.


Cons:
Needs to be wired instead of "wireless".


Other thoughts:
Don't fall for the wireless hoax; this bracelet is not going to make static magically disappear into nowhere. Do yourself a favor and modify the bracelet (if you do want to spend the money for this bracelet) to make it into a wired one. It actually may be cheaper to get a stretchy metal band from a watch (or a spare from Wal-Mart or somewhere) and make one that is wired yourself.

Minus one star for price, and minus one for the lack of wire.