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In Reply to: RE: On the other hand... posted by rick_m on February 11, 2013 at 14:03:57
As much as I eschew guesswork, I'm guessing you never got a hold of Nordost Anti Static Spray or Mapleshade's Ionoclast ion gun.
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"As much as I eschew guesswork, I'm guessing you never got a hold of Nordost Anti Static Spray or Mapleshade's Ionoclast ion gun."
Not only that but I also threw out my polonium 210 brush a while back. Static isn't too much of a problem here and it had a good 50 half-lives on it. And I've had a bad reaction to some static suppression sprays so they're out.
But I do still have my zero-stat even though it doesn't look so good since I MEK'd it back together after it split in two.
So tell me more about your bizarre fantasies regarding static electricity, I want to believe...
Rick
PS: Did I ever tell you about using my zerostat to charge areas of CD's? Man those things are the pits, I suspect most any surface coating that is faintly conductive will get a thank-you card from your focusing servo. Somewhere on my list is to charge radial strips and monitor the focusing current to see how their amplitude compares with general focusing noise. Of course once the local server is up it becomes a don't care. I also wonder how much they affect the polarization. Meanwhile I'm sure enjoying this SACD of the organ symphony, perfect sound forever!
if you carry though and measure the focusing motor current and voltage.
I do believe it is a primary weakness of the optical drive systems and since it is basically all chip based these days there is very little ( other than an complex circuit board) any one can do to modify and work on it.
In the past, I am sure you have read about how I add ferrofluid to the focus motor coils for a very nice increase in both detail and dynamics. The ferrofluid simply increases the motor sensitivity and speed and the its focus reaction time seems to speed up enabling the better performance.
I would guess a better linear power supply could accomplish similar results, but the area around the servo chips is pretty high density already, although these new SMD devices look interesting, if I could only see the damn things!
I am guessing that the servo chips start to loose their efficiency also over time and are responsible for mistracking. Maybe the internal consitutents are either deteriorating or perhaps "leaking". Often times adding ferrofluid will restore other wise mistracking CD mechanisms
Any way my 2 cents, FWIW
Stu
Hi Stu,
I was only going to monitor the focusing current to see if it was being affected by the charge distribution on the CD surface. When I was playing with it there was a lot of interest in such things and I too was also curious why different disks preferred (SQ-wise) different players. Since it seemed possible that a lot of the stuff being done worked by dissipating or evening out residual charges I started with that premise and found that it was easy to locally force a more or less permenant charge using a zerostat which I could easily detect with a dog-hair electroscope but I wanted to see if they also affected the read head lens mechanism.
That interest seems to have now abated since most folks have already switched to data feeds and even late adopters such as myself will be joining them pretty soon. I've had almost no problems with CD's mistracking I was looking for secondary effects.
Regards, Rick
unless you have converted to a flash type data storage system. The older hard drives still employ a magnetic reader.
Stu
What's bizarre is your know it all attitude. That's what comes from pontificating from the comfort of your Barco Lounger a little too much. It's a little funny, you're like a dung beetle carrying around his outdated ideas like a big ball of dung that gets bigger and bigger...
Edits: 02/12/13
a perfect analogy from the master of dung......and YOU calling out someone for having a no-it-all attitude is laughable!
BTW...Is that you...looking for your latest steaming pile?
Edits: 02/12/13
You may address me as Master if you like.
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