On 12/09/2019 20:01, John Rumm wrote:
On 12/09/2019 14:33, GB wrote:

I always wear nitrile foam gloves for electrical work. It makes me
feel safer and gives me extra grip as I get older and weaker.

I tend to wear them for lots of DIY/woodwork these days - just for the
enhanced grip, and a bit of protection from splinters etc.

Yesterday, my son tackled me and said that the foam conducts. And he
can prove it. So, we touched one of the neon testers to live, and I
lit it up, through the gloves. Slightly less bright than without the
glove. But, it was definitely glowing a bit.

Worth noting that many modern foam gloves are designed to be slightly
conducting so as to be touch screen compatible.

The more important question is what current can they pass. Might be
interesting to test them with an insulation resistance tester...

ok just did an experiment with some Screwfix "Dextrogrip" gloves...

With my old 500V Megger BMD1, crock clips on the leads clamped onto a
bit of folded over foam at the palm of the glove, and each clip spaced a
couple of mm from the other. Reading at 500V was out of range (i.e. =
200 MOhms)

On an older well worn pair, doing the same test on a bit of the fabric
of the cuff, I could get ~3 MOhms

So based on that limited experiment, not much to worry about!



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Cheers,

John.

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