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The safest assumption is that there is always a charge on the record attracting dust. Even so, a small charge will accumulate over a short period of time. The impedance of your tissue is in the megaohms. The single best way to totally discharge a record is a conductive brush wired to ground. Regardless, a charge will accumulate with play. Unfortunately, I could not get hold of a Zerostat to test it's effectiveness. If the sweep arm leads the stylus charge will still accumulate. A record that is charged when you put it away will come out at least as charged even if you are using anti static sleeves.
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These are records that have been totally discharged prior to storage. Records stored in paper come out with a noticeably higher charge. Records stored in MoFi antistatic sleeves come out with the baseline small charge. Playing the record over and over again progressively increases the charge from slightly to heavily charged.ĭoes how you store the record effect charge? Yes absolutely. This will appear to us as an uncharged record.ĭoes playing a record increase the static charge? Yes absolutely, and the charge is additive. If I suspend a discharged record (no thread activity) by it's hole within 30 minutes it will develop a slight charge (vinyl attracts the thread, label repels it). Totally discharging a record required using a Pro-Ject conductive record brush wired to ground.
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The label will actually donate electrons to the vinyl over time reaching an equilibrium point. It turns out that completely discharging a record is not easy. I can now define four conditions No charge, Light charge, Charged and Heavily charged. It will pick up very small charges that otherwise go undetected. The PVC attracts it like a magnet and the Label repels it. I tied a length of 6-0 Prolene to a wood dowel and it worked beautifully. I have polypropylene in the form of suture material, the blue thread that many of you have seen.
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Studying the Triboelectric series I noted that polypropylene is at the opposite end to PVS. I had to find a more sensitive way to measure static as it became apparent that using your own hair is very insensitive. We just had a real good cold snap in New England dropping the humidity to under 20% so I was able to run a set of qualitative experiments documenting some surprising results that I hope will clear up a lot of the mystery and help people contro static charge and the accumulation of dust on their record. We had a long discussion on the possible causes of static electrical charges on records in another thread.