Lie, Truth or Occult Tuning? Does Static Electricity Removal Work?

When aluminium tape is applied to the body of a motorcycle, static electricity is removed, improving handling and vehicle performance. It's a lie that got a lot of attention when Toyota Motor Corporation patented it, but there is still a lot of controversy about it.

Is it possible to remove static electricity with such a simple object? Even if it can be removed, what does it mean that removing static electricity will improve handling? What do you mean? I don't understand it at all, because it is an invisible thing called static electricity. Many people swear it's a placebo (belief).

Would it surprise you if I told you that there is a world where it is common practice to actively discharge static electricity?

WebiQ is here to bring you a little happiness and motorcycle knowledge. In this article, we'll delve into static electricity removal tuning.

What is Occult Tuning?

First of all, let's talk about the term "occult tune". It is a word that occurred naturally without telling anyone, and it is not internet slang etc. because it already existed 30 years ago.

In contrast to "normal tuning parts" such as carburetor replacement and exhaust system replacement, which have a clear basis for changing something by installing them, occult parts have no clear basis, or the basis is too special for normal people to understand.
For example, "When you wear it, you will receive energy from the universe with pyramid power and ......", or "It contains the energy of Ra, the sun god who also appears in ancient Egyptian mythology, and ......". This is a part that is a little hard to understand what it is saying to ordinary people, but it has an immense effect on believers.

How about a simple device that removes static electricity and makes everything better?
At least from a literal standpoint.I can only smell an occult tune!

Toyota static electricity removal

The static electricity removal tune itself has been around for a long time. However, there is no way that something like an occult tune would be accepted by the general public, and it has a history of being dismissed as "meaningless" and falling into disuse.

The tide has turned.Since Toyota got a patent on aluminum tape for removing static electricity.Patents are not easy to obtain, so there is no way that Toyota, a company that thoroughly eliminates waste, would obtain such a patent for no reason.

It turns out that static electricity removal tunes have already been implemented for cars on the market.What I did. And we're not selling them as optional parts.standard equipment. Toyota is unusually strict about cost, so there is no way they would bother to install something useless as standard equipment. The cost of aluminum tape, the labor cost corresponding to the time spent applying the tape, the cost of disposing of the removed backing paper, the cost of land for the work space, etc., are all taken into consideration, and it is clear that the product was adopted because it demonstrates performance that is more than sufficient.

It's hard to believe.It's worth the trouble.I guess that's what it means.

The world's static eliminator

By the way, there are already cases in the world where static electricity is removed for the purpose of performance improvement.

The most famous and immensely effectiveAircraft Discharge Cable(A component called a static discharger. It is a string-shaped or rod-shaped discharge device attached mainly to the trailing edge of the wing, and can be seen attached to ordinary passenger aircraft.
It is said that without this discharge cable, electromagnetic interference will occur in the communication radio waves due to the static electricity charged on the aircraft.

Helicopters often do not have discharge cables, and electricity that cannot be fully discharged is charged on the fuselage, so when a rescue hook is lowered, it must be discharged by contacting the ground once, otherwise people on the ground may be electrocuted.

Maybe static electricity has a bigger power than we thought?

Why does static electricity occur?

If I write in detail, it will be full of difficult technical terms, so I will simplify it. When objects rub against each other, they become electrically charged.(= static electricity), and so on.

When you were in elementary school, didn't you play a game where you held an undershirt under your arm, rubbed it, and then held it above your head to lift your hair?
That thing is static electricity generated by friction, which charges the non-conductive underlay and lifts the hair against gravity.

When you touch a doorknob, static electricity is discharged and crackles because your body is charged from rubbing against your clothes. In airplanes, the airframe rubs against the air, and in helicopters, the wings, which rotate at high speed, rub against the air, causing static electricity to be generated and charged.

On a large scale, so is lightning. When air and air rub against each other in air currents, they become electrically charged, and when they are discharged all at once, they become lightning. It can be discharged in the air, and if it is discharged on the ground, it will be a lightning strike.

Even if you think that static electricity doesn't affect the performance of your bike, when you hear the word "lightning", you might think that it might. But when you hear about lightning, don't you think it might have some effect? There have been several cases where the solar wind (electrically charged particles) emitted from the sun rubbed against the satellite and charged it, causing an electrical discharge inside the satellite, resulting in total loss of the satellite. Static electricity is actually quite amazing.

Can static electricity be removed?

Some people say, "There's no way you can discharge electricity with something that simple. But as I mentioned in the section above about the airplane's discharge cable. It is possible to discharge charged static electricity into the air with a simple structure.

When static electricity is accumulated and discharged at once, it is obvious that it is discharging because it is accompanied by sparks like lightning, but when it is constantly discharging, you cannot see or feel anything.There is no easy way to feel that you are discharging electricity.There is no meter to measure and display how much it is discharging.

The fact that there is no way of confirming that it is discharging has probably added to the occult image of static electricity removal. It's not hard to see why it feels very fake.

Static Electricity Removal for Motorcycles

So on a motorcycle, where are the areas most likely to be charged by rubbing against something?

As with 4-wheeled vehicles, the typical friction areas are the exterior, intake air, fuel and hoses, and the operating parts of the vehicle body. Since motorcycles are basically full of parts that move while rubbing against each other, there are many products on the market that claim to eliminate static electricity for these parts.

Is it to discharge effectively? It is a feature for motorcycles that it discharges at each place instead of discharging at the whole body. For suspension, there are many products for suspension, and for air intake, there are many products for air cleaner and carburetor (injector) mount area.

The suspension is where the oil moves fast inside, and the air cleaner is where the air moves fast. The area around the carburetor (injector) is certainly going to be chafed and charged because of the high speed movement of the air mixture as well as the fuel flow.

Like airplanes, cowls that rub against the air should also be electrically charged, but there are no products on the market that remove electrification from exterior parts. This is probably due to Toyota's patent, which prevents the commercial use of static electricity removal products that are effective on cowls (even if they are not the aluminum tape-applied type). That's the patent.

Incidentally, NGC Japan has patented the "Smooth Drive System" for removing static electricity from motorcycles.

What are the effects when static electricity is removed?

You can't even see that it's discharging, but when it comes to the effects of that discharge, it's actuallyNo one can explain it logically.It seems. Both Toyota and NGC Japan say that "discharging electricity from an electrically charged object improves various things," but they don't say exactly what those things are.
Anyway, it seems to get better.

This obscurity makes it more occult-like and creates a situation where those who make fun of it are thoroughly foolish.

The air flow is better.Better handling.It's a good way to get the oil flowing.Better suspension.It's just a matter of getting the intake air flowing.The engine will be better.Hmm? Really? Just because you're no longer charged with static electricity?

Are you sure?

If you put on a metal object with a sharp tip, it will corona discharge from it and remove the static electricity.This is true.In addition to the discharge cables of airplanes, there are other practical objects in the world that are discharged on this principle.

Dust collectors and deodorizers are familiar to us. The dust collector charges dust in the air by releasing static electricity, and collects fine dust by adsorbing it on the main body.
The deodorization machine also deodorizes by adsorbing the particles of odor with the same principle. There are also products that actively generate ozone with the plasma generated during discharge, but that's another story. At any rate, there is no doubt that mere static electricity can move small objects.

The question is, if you discharge static electricity into the air, does it have an effect that you can feel? I guess that's the question. Dust in the air is a tiny substance and can be moved, but a motorcycle is a body weighing over 100 kg. It can be understood from the example of the underlay that the resin is charged, but is there enough energy in the resin to affect the behavior of the car body or to interfere with the performance of the engine or suspension because the resin is charged? It comes down to this.

What does it mean to have better handling? What does it mean for the suspension to work better? The questions are endless, and the static-removal acrimony only grows.

Actually, I'm already experiencing it.

I wrote that static electricity is generated when things rub against each other. The static electricity generated is charged and bad, so the static elimination tune tries to discharge this and release it. That's not good!

However, everyone has already experienced a condition similar to that of removing static electricity. It's called rainy day'. On rainy days, static electricity is less likely to be charged because it flows toward moisture before it is charged. As a result, on rainy days, the car is automatically in the same condition as if it had been given a static elimination tune to some extent.

So does the suspension work better in the rain? Well, let me tell you.What is this?It really does get better.

Next time it rains, take a closer look. On a rainy day, you probably pay attention to the tire grip and don't pay much attention to the suspension movement, but if you pay attention to it, you can feel it. The downside is that you can't run the same as you would on a sunny day and the sound of the rain makes it super hard to tell, though.

Motorcycles are exposed directly to the wind and rain, so it's hard to tell, but I think you can feel it quite clearly in a car. "The car kind of moves better on a rainy day", just pay attention and drive it.

Let's give it a try!

But, you know, in the end.You'll just have to experience it for yourself.Don't assume before you try it that "this won't work." Try it. You don't need to know anything about suspension setting, you don't need to judge whether it's good or bad. It's OK if you can feel that something has changed.

The manufacturer's product should be able to experience the effect clearly because only the "part that works well" is released on the basis of various tests, but if you do not have the courage to suddenly invest a lot of money, you can try to make it yourself. Even if the effect is a little different, in short, it is enough to discharge from the tip of the sharp metal, so you can just attach something like that.

However, during testing at the manufacturer,When I put it on, it did the opposite, it collected static electricity and it was a bummer.There have also been reports of cases of
So the assumption is that if you install something you made yourself, it can get worse.

Anyway.Sometimes you have to be fooled to understand.After all, even the manufacturer is not completely sure of the reason for this, and in unknown vehicles, they have installed it in various places to find out.

In other words,the products being sold are those that have been determined to be effective.to. This is especially true for the ones that are model specific kits.

Don't trust anyone else's opinion.

After all, there are people who deny everything and experience effects that do not exist. Other people's opinions are not helpful.Don't take this article for granted either. You'll just have to experience it for yourself.

By the way, in my case, the vehicles that I own are all unpopular motorcycles, so unfortunately there are no kits for different models made by the manufacturer. I don't think it will ever be released.I'm in the process of building my own and experimenting with it.However, this is more difficult and I am struggling

It's hard to be sure it's not just my imagination (i.e. placebo effect) even though it feels like it had a wonderful effect, and I haven't seen any numerical changes because it hasn't reached a level that would affect my fuel economy. I'm at that stage where I've just put some textiles on and I don't know what's going on but it feels like it's getting better.

There is a special kit available for the Hiace, my 4-wheeled car, but I have not yet purchased it. I'm already in the mood to buy one, though.