[ale] even more OT: 2 Monitors

[hne at hopnet.net (Keith Hopkins)]

Joe Steele wrote:
>>Modern day monitors has shielding already.  Want to test the me.  Get a magnet and see if
>>the image changes.  
> 
> 
> Cautionary point:  This 'test' is intended to be carried out at the rear of the monitor.  Bring your magnet anywhere close to the phosphor screen at the front, and the image will definitely change, quite possibly forever.  The magnet will deflect the scanning path of the electron beams, which, if done in excess, can burn the phosphor.
> 
> Kids will find this particularly fascinating.  I know I did :)  (but I never caused any damage)
> 

Very-near-by lightening strikes have a similar effect on the front of the screen. (Oh! The pretty colors!)  I learned this living in Tampa (lightening capital of the world).

-- 
Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith



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