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mountain:

--- Quote from: cardinal23 on October 01, 2008, 05:44:40 pm ---Can anyone link to a decent online source for smoked lexan?

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This is what I use

cmoses:
When mounting under smoked glass, is there a optimal depth the monitor should be behind the glass?

protokatie:
Here comes ProtoKatie (AKA the A-hole) to state one reason why not to use tinted glass (since noone else seemed up to it).

If you use tinted glass you DO get higher contrast, but at the sacrifice of tube life. IE to get the same brightness, you have to crank the bright on the CRT up.

Yes it looks better, but I figured I would point out the primary negative, since noone else did so.

Visitor Q:

--- Quote from: protokatie on October 03, 2008, 02:56:58 am ---Here comes ProtoKatie (AKA the A-hole) to state one reason why not to use tinted glass (since noone else seemed up to it).

If you use tinted glass you DO get higher contrast, but at the sacrifice of tube life. IE to get the same brightness, you have to crank the bright on the CRT up.

Yes it looks better, but I figured I would point out the primary negative, since noone else did so.

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It this the only negative then?

mrjah:

--- Quote from: protokatie on October 03, 2008, 02:56:58 am ---Here comes ProtoKatie (AKA the A-hole) to state one reason why not to use tinted glass (since noone else seemed up to it).

If you use tinted glass you DO get higher contrast, but at the sacrifice of tube life. IE to get the same brightness, you have to crank the bright on the CRT up.

Yes it looks better, but I figured I would point out the primary negative, since noone else did so.

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That's a good point.  And it makes me feel better about using a mediocre old CRT that I don't care about.   ;)

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