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Well, now. You don't want magnetic mines jumping up outta nowhere in your family room, now do you?
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Dear wow: I searched for "TV degaussing" and got a very,very long text about TV monitors. Picture quality can be harmed by magnetic fields. Degaussing can prevent or correct this. But nothing about any hazard to the viewer from magnetic problems.
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There are also degaussers specifically for magnetic tapes. The magnetic field of the degausser destroys (scrambles) the iron oxide elements which have become aligned in patterns to produce the intelligence on the tape. I guess if one can degauss something, one ought to be able to gauss it first, but I've never seen the term.
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"I guess if one can degauss something, one ought to be able to gauss it first, but I've never seen the term."
If you found that term in use, would you be gruntled? Or maybe appointed?
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Perhaps a gauss could be the electronic counterpart of
the opposite of an asp in the grass. (Not a reference to sweet Betsy)
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Reminds me of the Jewish lady with a head-cold who kept a bunch of tissues down the fornt og her dress.
She was acused oif nurturing a viper in her bosom
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But not Leda's swan in retro.
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Aha! So that's what that button on my monitor does. I press it sometimes. The screen goes wobbly. I thought it was a game.
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Dear dodyskin: I can remember getting the goofy image you mention, but can't remember what the purpose of the button was. But I'm sure it was not degaussing to improve image quality. Something about the type of signals presented to the monitor.
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Dear Dr. Bill
On googling monitor degauss purpose I got this explanation, well actually I got 1,200 explanations but this will do:
Ever wonder what that "degauss" button on your monitor does besides make a buzzing noise and cause the screen to go crazy for a second? Though that's its main purpose, the degauss button has another useful feature. To understand it, you'll first need to know that the earth has natural magnetic fields. The magnetic charges from these fields can build up inside your monitor, causing a loss of color accuracy. Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma. If your monitor doesn't have a degauss button, fear not -- many new monitors automatically degauss themselves. If you have a flat-panel display, there is no degauss button because magnetism doesn't build up in flat screen displays.
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