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From: phil@aimt.UU.NET (Phil Gustafson)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: help me build a "static simulator"?
Summary: Cheap, easy, safe
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Date: 27 Feb 89 19:56:26 GMT
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If you want sparks that are only on the order of the ones you make shuffling
on a floor, try one of the anti-static pistols sold at stereo stores.

These have a lever trigger that distorts a peiziolectric crystal, making
a charge dissipated by one or two needle-like electrodes.

The idea of these is to discharge vinyl disks to keep them from attracting
dust.

They cost $30 or so.

						phil

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