Fraser has developed static eliminators for the rapidly growing tags and label market.
Static electricity is particularly important in manufacturing RFID tags as very low static levels can damage them – 500V is typical for the more sensitive devices. On a normal label printing or converting process, static levels over 10,000V are common. This may give shocks to operators and attract dust, but in many cases it can be tolerated.
When making RFID tags such a level of static would damage the electronic circuitry in the components and cause a high level of failures. Most of the failures would only be recognizable when the tags are in the field, causing major customer concern.
According to Fraser, most static eliminators cannot offer a balanced ionization output that can guarantee that the charge level is below 500V. The company has developed the 1250-50 static eliminator bar and power unit, which has an ionized output balance of less than 50V especially for this market.
Up to four bars can be connected to each power unit, said to make it ideal for the multi bar installations required on many RFID converting lines.
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