Best Practices for ESD Gloves

Technical Questions
#1

Hello all!

I think this question belongs here. Apologies in advance if I’ve posted in the wrong place.

I’m building a computer and have severe OCD. My hands have been washed to hell and back and back again, so they’re bleeding a bit and my fingertips can’t really grip onto anything (like a processor) without some slippage happening.

Now that I’ve given you the backstory, I bought some ESD gloves off Amazon (Portwest A198 Antistatic Safety Glove with PU Non Slip Fingertip Coating ANSI, Medium: Amazon.com: Tools & Home Improvement) and want to know if I should wear my (properly grounded via a ring terminal on a known good outlet) anti-static wristband over the gloves or directly touching my skin.

Bonus question: I bought a bunch of Velcro loops for cable management, so I plan to wrap them around various cables behind the motherboard tray in my case’s cable management area. Is that going to be a problem as far as ESD is concerned?

Thank you for helping out!

#2

While I have no idea of what the glove material is made of, wear a wrist strap next to your skin, not over the glove. A wrist strap is meant to ground a person and has a specific resistance in series. Putting a wrist strap over a glove will increase the resistance and could increase the body voltage of the person.

#3

Thank you for the quick response!

According to the manufacturer, they’re made of “13 gauge pylon and carbon fiber shell” with polyurethane dipped finger tips.

Does this change your answer at all?

#4

Not really, I tried to find information on how they determine the “ESD” characteristics but did not find any. Testing should be done to ANSI/ESD STM 15.1 - Gloves standard.
This is not to say they don’t work, I could not find any information.