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The article cites/links-to a whitepaper from 1993 on the topic of EMI producing furniture. I haven't actually read the whitepaper myself, but there might be mor

• scrumper 7y ago
  ah thanks, had missed that.
• fanf2 7y ago
  The paper is mostly about measuring the magnitude of the EMI. They observe that dry air and metal legs are required, but not much more than that - I don’t think they mention gas lifts at all. The last few paragraphs have some guesses but they basically said that finding the cause is for future work.
  • m463 7y ago
    It said a cushion, so maybe it's a static charge in combination with the legs as an antenna? I remember during cold winter weather, with single digit humidity, sliding off a fabric car seat would cause you to get shocked when you touched something.