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From: smgood@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Brian Good)
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Subject: Re: Ozone from high end systems?
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Date: 19 Jun 91 12:49:00 GMT
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In article <13059@uwm.edu>, tmajni@sequent.com (Tim Majni) writes...
>I have been auditioning Apogee Stages for the past couple of days.  
> 
>    Do Apogee speakers generate ozone?
> 
My Apogee Stages *did* smell funny for the first three months I               
owned them, but the smell seemed more like an adhesive or a resin             
of some kind.  I talked with some of our space environment people             
(read atomic oxygen in space), and the consensus is that it's pretty          
unlikely a ribbon speaker would generate significant ozone if it's            
functioning properly.  You'd get some ozone if you had arcing between         
the diaphragm and the magnets, support, or whatever, but, to the best         
of my knowledge, this is rare even in electrostatics, with their high         
polarizing voltages. In planars magnetics, it's even less likely.