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Title:You get surface noise in real life too
Notice:Let's be conformist
Moderator:GOVT02::BARKER
Created:Thu Jul 28 1988
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:550
Total number of notes:3847

183.0. "electrostatic headphone" by HOO78C::ESSER (Wim Esser) Tue Jun 26 1990 14:13


	I am planning to make mine own electrostatic headphone.
	( just for the fun of it) One of the main problems is to 
	create a high resistive layer on the diaphragm. In a old
	"Wireless World" article there talking about using "Aquadag".
	Does anybody knows what that is and where I can get it and
	if not does anybody has any other idea what I can use for it ?
	
						Wim Esser
						Holland
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183.1< I could be wrong ....>AKOV12::HADNEYMon Jul 02 1990 22:4515
    If I'm not mistaken, Aquadag is, or was, a carbon-impregnated silica-
    gel substance produced by the Cabot Company in Boston, Massachusetts.
    These components were suspended in a thick matrix that could be 
    "painted" onto whatever surface needed the treatment.
    
    Once dried, I believe it provided the resistive surface you need.  I'm
    recalling an experience of 10 or more years ago in regard to this
    material, so I could be totally wrong.  
    
    Would you like me to call the Cabot Company for you to check on this?