Hiya
So... I finally bought an antistatic mat, a couple of wrist straps and a mains earth bonding plug containing a 10Mohm resistor.
A couple of questions - there is one connector on the mat, if I use this to connect to the mains earth via the bonding plug where do I connect the wrist straps - do I strip the cable connecting to earth and make extensions? or do I clip the crocodile clips directly to the surface of the mat?
Is it safe to power up boards on the mat for testing - or will it be conductive enough to short out pcbs?
Many thanks for any guidance.