ESD flooring in electrical room

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luckylerado said:
Im sorry but I strongly disagree with everything that you said. Not at all true. You are no more conductive and nothing is going to suck electricity towards it. SDT just gives a path to earth for static discharge only caused by friction in a low humidity environment seperated from earth by an insulator typically on your feet. Would not even blow a breaker if you laid a live conductor on it.
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Every ESD matting I installed had a sheet of copper under it and a ground rod attached to the copper. That makes it pretty well grounded in my opinion. Now things may have changed in the thirty years since I've installed any.
 
kwired said:
Likely true, the other concern was cost for something that wasn't needed in the first place. Concrete is likely already going to be there, anything else applied to it is more cost.
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Correct, it'll be a conventional slab on grade. All the necessary EMI mitigation, vibration mitigation, and ESD components will be in the cleanroom on the other side of the hallway from the electrical room. This is your normal, run of the mill electrical room with a 3000kVA service located in the main electrical room directly above. Between all the distribution panels I have in this electrical room, I'm powering about 900kVA worth of mechanical support equipment, air handlers, make up air units, and research lab tools. Again, only maintenance staff and electricians "should" be going inside the electrical room.
 
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