OT: Carpets producing static

At 07:53 PM 12/4/98 +0000, Athanasios Kotsenos wrote: Inexpensive ultrasonic humidifiers essentially break up water into small bits and then fan them into the air, meaning anything in your water such as calcium, salt, etc. is now in the air. As those droplets evaporate as they should, the other material becomes dust that will collect electrostatically on electronic equipment, plastics, etc. As someone else on the list implied, any more old-fashioned humidifier (which may be even more inexpensive than the ultrasonics) that merely exposes water to blowing air isn't prone to this sort of dust generation. I used an ultrasonic humidifier for a *very short* time until I discovered this nasty side-effect as all my monitor screens became frosty white, and the plastic and metal cases of equipment became dusted in static-y patterns. - John