Thread: Static Cling??
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Re: Static Cling??

Static electricity thrives on insulation. No, really. If your belt and spindles were conductive, the electrons would not be accumulating and giving you shocks. It's the physical motion of the material that pulls the electrons along and drops them all off in the same place.

To drain off the charge, you can use the sort of wire-brush thing some aircraft have at the trailing edges of the wing, or you can try putting some pointy metal aiming at the top and bottom rollers, connected to the metal frame of the robot.