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| Thenasty:
I had a broken Arcade Monitor and I have it thrown away. But before I threw it out, I took out the degausing unit around the monitor. Can you make something so you can use it as your degausing tool ? What power does it require ? |
| Darkstalker:
Well, for a professional grade degausing coil I think you'd be better of just buying one. Considering I doubt you want to get into TV repair, I think you are better off shielding your CRTs or buying new ones than trying to mess around with degausers IMO. |
| Bgnome:
http://www.oscarcontrols.com/degauss/index.shtml |
| whammoed:
Oscars site has all the info you should need: http://www.oscarcontrols.com/degauss/index.shtml |
| MonitorGuru:
Check the monitor forum (where this post should be/will likely be moved to) for info. I just posted a long reply about how to use a beefy soldering gun or bulk tape eraser to do the same thing. Duty cycles on monitors/tv's are typically one use (not second) per every 20 minutes. However each manufacturer may be different. The typical on time is about 3-4 seconds, not 1 second. Oscar's hacked degaussing wand (and those that you buy professionally) incorporate a power limiting device, in the case of Oscar's, a small wattage light bulb. You get degaussing effects by creating a large alternating magnetic field by coiling wire. It has nothing to do with running 15 amp or 1/2 an amp through it. As you all know if you take a wire and short an AC outlet, the wire will burn up instantly if smaller than the wires leading to the outlet/fuse/circuit breaker, or will blow your fuse/circuit breaker if it is larger than that. By placing a light bulb in the middle you prevent the coil from buring up instantly, though the effects of the AC power running through it still perform the task necessary--alternate a magnetic field to remove magnetism from metal parts including the shadow mask of the monitor. |
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