3M™ ESD Pro Event Detector

The ultimate goal of an ESD program is to reduce the strength and occurrences of ESD events, or electrostatic discharges. ESD events can destroy sensitive components during their manufacturing, handling and assembly. Knowledge of the presence of ESD events and their relative strength is critical for assessment of the ESD environment and for determining whether the production environment is suitable for handling ESD-sensitive devices. The only way to verify that your ESD protection works is by knowing whether you have ESD events in the environment, how strong they are and how many of them occur. The portable, easy-to-use 3M ESD Pro Event Detector serves as a quick measure of the effectiveness of your ESD protection. ESD Pro is a hand-held indicator of ESD events that detects and counts the discharges as well as shows the relative strength of each ESD event. ESD Pro offers variable settings of the discharge alarm threshold to detect and count only those discharges that exceed the threshold. ESD Pro provides an audio alarm on each discharge and an LED bar-graph to show the relative strength of the ESD events. If the discharge exceeds the set alarm level, the LEDs turn red. ESD Pro is capable of rejecting most non-ESD related EMI (electromagnetic interference) events. This special proprietary charge device model (CDM) mode allows assessment of the ESD environment in places where EMI events resulting from stepper motors, solenoids, relays and sources abound.

• Electronics assembly
• Semiconductor device manufacturing
• Disk drive manufacturing
• Medical environments
• MilitaryAerospace
• Wherever sensitive components are being handled

• ESD event detection
• Adjustable alarm threshold
• CDM mode to reject non-ESD events
• Relative ESD Event strength with 10-LED bargraph indicator
• Audio and visual alarms
• Sound alarm on/off
• Portable instrument for use anywhere