Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Stan, You think wrong. The Zerostat uses a piezo crystal to produce the ions. I would think twice before I aimed my Zerostat at my daughters Leica Digital sensor. It makes a very painful spark. It is the Staticmaster brush that used Polonium. (mildly radioactive) but no longer available. It had a very limited half-life. Jerry Stan Yoder wrote: > A thought: back in the era of vinyl LP recordings, the Discwasher > company marketed a pistol-shaped "Zerostat" device that, when you > slowly pulled the trigger, 'sprayed' the vinyl with (I think) negative > ions to (at least temporarily) lessen the LP's dust attraction. > > Would that idea work with sensors? > > I still have the Zerostat. I think it uses Polonium(?) as a source of > ions. > > Stan Yoder > > _______________________________________________ > L