A few decades ago the audiophools were being tempted by shelves of radioactive anti-static spray to squirt at their records.

So... single electrons will give you a jolt... but protons in pairs will slowly nuke you to death?

 

Wondering...If you are using an ion generator to spray electrons into the local air, is that a static charge build up?

Once upon a time I had a roommate with an ion generator. The ozone ate the rubberized backing off the curtains just above the ion generator.

 

Wondering...If you are using an ion generator to spray electrons into the local air, is that a static charge build up?

Once upon a time I had a roommate with an ion generator. The ozone ate the rubberized backing off the curtains just above the ion generator.

That's an ozone generator - molecules of 3 oxygen atoms, fierce oxidising agent.

If you can produce ozone in its liquid form without blowing yourself up - it reacts with pretty much anything.

 

Did you mean Polonium?

Polonium apha emission will remove static, as when using very sensitive balances. We had little brushes like this containing the stuff by our balances:
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With many things, using moisture was out of the question.

John

I hope that none of your work colleagues was stupid enough to clown around with that thing and used it to brush his teeth...

 

Fabric softener sheets do wonders. If you gave a static issue withat a particular sweater or paIR of pants put a sheet in your pocket and your good. Most use a high molecular weight, waxy quaternary ammonium salt as the active ingredient.

I have no idea if lack of static cling correspondo to lack of dead chips.

 

I'm almost convinced that this is a fraud. And being myself an engineer, I'm ashamed to say I'm a little confused since I'm supposed to know better... But I'd like to hear the opinion of the members of this forum, other than the opinions already posted in Amazon. Is this possible? I bought two of this a few years ago, and the description claimed that they worked using a so called "corona effect", which I later looked up, and found nothing about, at least related to ESD protection. As you can see, they no longer use this claim in their description, but it now reads "Current limiting resistor IMOhm .5%, Electro-scattering time 0.1sec, Rinsing resisting"
Also, they have changed the product's name, color and presentation (and price), so as to reset their sales pitch.

A this point it is my belief that there is no way to get rid of an electrostatic charge other than discharging it directly to ground... this taking place either through physical contact to ground itself, or through an irksome body-to-air-to-ground high voltage ESD... like the one one experiences when getting out of a car on a very dry day.
Here you'll find the critique I wrote about this infamous product.

Not sure about the AS wrist strap, looks dubious to me. Hell, if one is too lazy to disconnect a simple clip from the ground plane then perhaps one shouldn't be getting outta bed in the mornings either ;-)
However, your original post did lead me to have a look at that book you reviewed tiltled "The Martian". Looks like an interesting read and worthy of a purchase.

 

Not sure about the AS wrist strap, looks dubious to me. Hell, if one is too lazy to disconnect a simple clip from the ground plane then perhaps one shouldn't be getting outta bed in the mornings either ;-)
However, your original post did lead me to have a look at that book you reviewed tiltled "The Martian". Looks like an interesting read and worthy of a purchase.

Oh man!!!!! you have struck a chord with me on that one!!! you have NO IDEA of how good that book is... that is, for real space science nerds like me... BUY it and read it, you won't regret it. And if you don't like it, you can come to Mexico anytime an have a few beers on me as compensation.

 

http://gokimco.com/simco-ion-400336...-blower.html?gclid=COmmmfrTlsMCFRRcfgodDK0ARw

I think these work.

 

http://gokimco.com/simco-ion-400336...-blower.html?gclid=COmmmfrTlsMCFRRcfgodDK0ARw

I think these work.

I think those are mainly use to electrolytically charge dust particles... forcing them to fall to the floor, or to adhere to walls instead of allowing them to float around and contaminate equipment and such... not sure if they work on people, though

 

.. forcing them to fall to the floor, or to adhere to walls instead of allowing them to float around and contaminate equipment and such... not sure if they work on people, though

Sounds like something from a science fiction movie. Now I have this vision of people floating around and stuck on walls .

 

Sounds like something from a science fiction movie. Now I have this vision of people floating around and stuck on walls .

Sorry! my bad!!! I meant to say ELECTROSTATICALLY and NOT electrolitically!
And as for the device working on people, I meant that I didn't know if people's body charge would be affected by it or not...