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    ESD safe Flexible filament?

    Does anyone know of an ESD safe filament that is also flexible? I can't find any. Thanks.

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    esd ?
    who he ?

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    ElectroStatic Discharge? It seems that all filaments would be pretty similar in that regard, unless they were conductive.

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    as none of the flexibles are conductive - wouldn't that make them all esd safe ?
    Or am i missing something ?

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    You are missing something....

    Insulators are not ESD as they can't be grounded and static charge will remain.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electr...arge_materials

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    Sooooo, we need conductive filament ?

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    Graphene 3D Lab Introduces New Conductive Flexible TPU Filament for 3D Printed Wearable Electronics

    Have not seen any for sale as of this date.
    Last edited by Roberts_Clif; 10-12-2018 at 06:52 AM.

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    pretty sure I've tried all the different carbon based conductive filaments. None of them are conductive enough to be of any use.

    However there was a company at tct who were working on a non-carbon based conductive filament that could be produced in lots of different colours.
    They wouldn't tell me what it was based around :-)

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    Quote Originally Posted by curious aardvark View Post
    pretty sure I've tried all the different carbon based conductive filaments. None of them are conductive enough to be of any use.
    It doesn't need to a very good conductor to be ESD safe. I have used Protopasta conductive filament to print ESD safe parts. While it may be problematic to use it as a conductor for any significant current, it's many orders of manitude more conductive than it needs to be to dissipate a static charge.

    That's filament is not flexible, though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by curious aardvark View Post
    pretty sure I've tried all the different carbon based conductive filaments. None of them are conductive enough to be of any use.

    However there was a company at tct who were working on a non-carbon based conductive filament that could be produced in lots of different colours.
    They wouldn't tell me what it was based around :-)
    Even I realized, thanks

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