Edman wrote:
After cleaning D100 CCD, this is what I've got (pic below). I don't
If you clean with Eclipse and get this streaking (as shown in the
photo with the original post), then 1 or 2 things are happening to
cause it .....
1) too much fluid. Use only 3-5 drops.
2) too little pressure . So how much pressure should one use ?.
Think of it this way. Imagine the back of your hand is a CCD which
you will drag a swab across ... (Sorry ladies, but I will use the
analogy with a male hand !)
When cleaning, most folks are too delicate, and slide over the
CCD so that they are just tickling the hairs of the hand. This
means the swab never really comes in full, even contact with the
CCD and results in no dust being removed, or even touched at all.
Streaking will occur where the contact with swab and CCD is not
completely even.
At the other end of the spectrum, pressure such that you pull the
skin as you move the swab across the surface is too much pressure -
though not likely (emphasis on NOT LIKELY) to cause damage.
Further pressure would result in your feeling the stick handle
pushing into your hand (WILL SNAP COVER GLASS) . Not good ! You
should only ever feel the swab, NEVER the handle - in other words,
the swab is evenly contacing the skin, the handle is applying
pressure only to a small central point - [ DANGER WILL ROBINSON
;> ) ]
Just about any pressure that does not tickle and does not pull the
skin will result in a clean CCD without streaks.There is a wide
range of pressure here that will work ....
I hope this makes it a little easier to understand - or is this
explanation confusing?