The Acaia Ion Beam comes with an L shaped bracket to mount on existing Orbit grinders. Source, their Instagram feed.

Looks like they updated the page linked in the original post. It used to show it mounted on their orbit. Now it shows a freestanding tripod. I wonder if it ships with the tripod.

Wonder how long it will take for them to integrate this into their grinder? If it works cool, but how many of us really want more things sitting on our counters. I can see the usefulness though especially for those with two grinders point it at one then spin it around to the other.

The Ion Beam is an ion generator that produces negative ions from its front end and positive ions from the back. The purpose is to minimize static electricity in coffee grounds that have built up either a positive or negative charge during grinding, depending on factors such as the coffee's roast level, the style of grinder and atmospheric conditions.

I'm a bit unclear how this is supposed to actually remove static charge from the coffee. In order to minimize the static charge on the coffee grounds you'd have to know if they were positively or negatively charged and then apply just the right amount of the opposite charge to neutralize them. If you apply the wrong charge you've made things worse, and if you apply too much of the right charge then all you've done is reverse the polarity on the grounds without actually "minimizing" anything.

The description sounds like this is just a seat of the pants thing where you wave the magic static reducer over the grounds coming out of the grinder and convince yourself you've improved the situation.

People used to use Zerostat anti-static guns marketed for record albums. This should work too.

These sorts of devices are common, I believe, on manufacturing lines.

I was toying with making one from the high voltage chip in bug zappers, but never got around to it.

coyote-1 wrote:This is perfect. Should come in right around three hundred bucks. Your setup just isn't complete without this necessary accessory. You'll taste the difference in the cup.

It's $150. Not cheap but doable if it works.

coyote-1 wrote:Has Lance's review of how awesome it should be hit YouTube yet?

Quite enjoying the mocking, but it seems a bit strange when half of what we discuss on here is just as unnecessary.

coyote-1 wrote:Has Lance's review of how awesome it should be hit YouTube yet?

Then of course in two months the IonBeam killer will hit the market...

This was an unnecessary comment.


Also Lance commented on it "it looks ugly, and can only see it practically being used in cafe settings" his Instagram live today.