[Robotgroup] Sisyphus: Static Charge...

[Gray Mack]

What about an antistatic spray or cloth?
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Anti-Static Spray recipe
1/4 cup commercial liquid fabric softener
1/4 cup ammonia (optional in some recipies)
2 cups water
Mix ingredients and store in a spray bottle. Spray liberally on the rug, your shoes, chair, desktop, or file cabinet, but do not spray directly onto your computer system.
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Not sure what its long term effects are on the plexiglas or the sand from mixing this gunk in though.

If it is too hard to keep opening the sand case, then how about some sort of bar magnets with dryer sheets neatly wrapped around them. One hangs out inside the case in the corner and one outside and you use it sweepingly to clean both surfaces. Like those magnetic acquarium cleaners.

Gray

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Vern Graner wrote:

>I was running the Sisyphus machine the other day to get a nice pattern
>to leave "up" when the machine was off. I noticed that, with the dry
>weather we've been having, the static electricity has *really* built up
>around the machine.
>
>The sand is clouding the lid of the machine as the ball moves around.
>Plus, the small amounts of dust produced tend to "fog" the lid and add
>to the opacity.
>
>I was wondering if a Negative Ion Generator might be a way to reduce the
>static build up on the Plexiglases box? Something like this:
>
>http://www.mpja.com/productview.asp?product=6057+KT
>
>If properly placed, would that allow the sand to "stay put" in the box
>instead of jumping up and adhering to the lid? Just musing... Static
>electricity is not my strong suit.. :)
>
>Vern


 
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