-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue 20 August 2002 4:18 pm, s wrote:
> My spouse brought home an old 1992 Packard Bell monitor from a friend > and I wanted to hook it up to my server and give that monitor to my > son. So I hook it up and it works! > > Buutttt, I sat down to check my email and my workstation's monitor's > (a hitachi cm611) picture was vibrating/giggling. So, try to degauss > it without results, but then unplugged the packard bell and my > hitachi went back to normal behavior. > > Why can't I use the old monitor that must sit about 8 inches from my > hitachi? And do you suppose there is some rigging I can do to > 'shield' my hitachi and be able to use the packard bell? (ok, I > admit I tried aluminum foil. teehee <blushing> Didn't work, but it > does keep those aliens away.) Given the failed experiment with tinfoil it looks as though the Packard Hell is giving out a strong magnetic field as well as a strong electronic field. In that case the cheapest solution would be to throw it away and buy a decent modern monitor; magnetic shielding is difficult to get right, hence expensive. (In fact, even the instrument used to _measure_ a magnetic field - a gaussmeter - is relatively expensive). As the PH dates from well before NEC took the company over (and improved manufacturing and build quality, not before time) it could well be that it lacks shielding of any sort ... Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9YmMZdasIDb/2nMwRAjByAJ4rVNnZW0IRquvRzTQST3CeC/CIMgCfTZZS T3Dz8RdgazmvpCfe+s0ldNQ= =fXIo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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