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Rotate a TV??
tetsu96:
That TV Tiller thing looks pretty similar to what most people ere do for rotating TVs/Monitors. I don't like it personally because that forces you to give up a lot of real estate - I'd rather just take it out of the cab and rotate it once and then leave it in there...
As far as the degausser goes, I've never seen one built into regular Televisions, but it's standard in PC monitors and a lot of Arcade Monitors. An external degausser is pretty simple - it's just a big electro magnet shaped in a circle (coil). You press a button to activate it, and then wave it in front of the monitor while it's on, pulling it back slowly, and the "gaussed" image gets less degaussed as you get further away. I think I've seen them online for around $20 although Happs will give you one for 3 times as much if you want...
Carsten Carlos:
--- Quote ---As far as the degausser goes, I've never seen one built into regular Televisions
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Maybe I just got you wrong - every(!) color-TV has a degaussion-coil in it, there simple doesn't exist any modell without it. Same for monitors.
If you are not an electronician, the external degausser is sure the easiest way, so you don't have to hack the TV, which I won't recommend to people who don't know exactly what they are doing. If you fire the coil to often in a to short moment, it might burn up, so be careful!
Best solution would be a circuit that don't allows you to start the degaussion to often without leting it cool down.
tetsu96:
My bad, I meant I never saw a button or control for manually performing a Degauss. I suppose they all degauss if the circut is cold on startup, but the Arcade monitors I've played with both had a button for degaussing....
Carsten Carlos:
Oki, I see! :)
Yep, that's a shame -I never had a monitor having just a additional switch for that, but that would be the easiest hacking you ever could have. Plus, as it is usely on the users panel, it must have a build-in protection against fireing the coil to rapidly.
delta88:
I took the coil outta an old 25inch monitor that I had..I just wired it up to a wall plug with a sutible button in line and tada ...worx fine.....just cannot leave it on for long or it will burn up and or burn your had...wave it in a circular motion whille moving it away from the screen...but do not touch the screen!!!
good luck!!