[net.audio] Discwasher ZeroStat

tom@rlgvax.UUCP (Tom Beres) (09/27/83)

A friend of mine recently bought a ZeroStat gun.  The directions
say how to use it, but they don't say what is happening while you
go through the motions.  Anyone care to explain how it works?
Is voodoo at all involved?

- Tom Beres
{seismo, allegra, mcnc, brl-bmd, we13}!rlgvax!tom

jeff@tesla.UUCP (Jeff Frey) (09/29/83)

Squeezing the trigger compresses a piezoelectric crystal; releasing the
pressure lets the crystal spring back, the voltage discharges across a
small air-gap, ionizing the air molecules within.  These ionized particles
gobble up their opposites on the record surface.
Jeff