Since this is all silly anyways... What about the mechanical strain caused by the charges? Would the device be more compressed due to the attraction between th

Since this is all silly anyways... What about the mechanical strain caused by the charges? Would the device be more compressed due to the attraction between the opposite charges associated with charged bits? Since the device is in air, it would then displace less air. Even though the device mass would be the same, the weight would be more.