How close is too close?

Posted by SMR [WizOp] [IP: 212.211.27.13] on December 31, 1998 at 14:10:13:

In Reply to: How close is too close? posted by Chris B. on December 31, 1998 at 02:19:15:

Chris,

The magnetic field of a loudspeaker bends the invar mask, a fine metal mesh within the picture tube, which causes gun alignment inaccuracies thus causing colour distortion.

My advice would be to be careful. If you don't see any colour distortion now you should be OK, but watch out for it over the next few weeks.

John is correct, sometimes TVs which are "all bent out of shape" will correct themselves, but sometimes they do not. I know of a few TVs permanently damaged. Some have a de-gauss system which flexes the invar mask back into position on start-up, Mitsubishi claim theirs counters the effects of the Earth's magnetic field!

Stuart.

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• How close is too close? - Dennis Pagoulatos 05:20:53 01/03/99 (0)

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