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- From: davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: How to degauss color monitor with no degauss button?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.172700.25250@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 17:27:00 GMT
- References: <0095EB21.4A37B260@FHYDRA.FYSEL.UNIT.NO> <4719@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> <mmaster.2a8bcc8d-e@parnasus.dell.com>
- Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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- In article <mmaster.2a8bcc8d-e@parnasus.dell.com> mmaster@parnasus.dell.com (Michael Masterson) writes:
- >ebe+@pitt.edu (Elmer Beachley) writes:
- >
- >
- >>WRT degaussing color monitors, definitely DO NOT use a bulk tape eraser.
- >>The magnetic pattern and strength of the magnetic field they produce
- >>will give you the more problems, not less.
- >
- >please expand on your warning, I've been using a plain bulk eraser to
- >degause TVs and monitors for YEARS and never had ANY adverse effects,
- >in fact, it's always worked perfectly.
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- I recall a service manual saying that to degauss their monitors you
- should construct a large coil and move it slowly over the monitor then
- slowly take it away from the monitor.
-
- Davei
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