A new approach to obtain data about the charge decay in sample of textiles for ESD garments

The preliminary results of a research work concerning a special charge decay characterisation of carefully tribocharged samples of composite textiles are reported. The output evidences that the adopted automated set-up can offer a very small data scatter, that the adopted grounding paths can offer information about the charge release behaviour of these types of fabric and that the obtained output is consistent with common experience on the field.