Re: X-RAYS

CRTs produce Xrays. BUT CRTs are made from leaded glass to absorb those
Xrays to an "acceptable" level.

It's all simple enough, don't apply more than the maximum high voltage
specified for a given CRT. Finding out what that maximum is, though,
seems to be the problem. I'd say grab a tube manual and look it up, but
tube manuals seem a little hard to find these days. And most of the
ones sold on eBay are either too old or are reprints of manuals that are
too old to have the CRTs we use in them.

Which brings us back to the numbers given by the monitor manufacturers.
 So let's use their maximums as a guide.

John Robertson wrote:

> More digging shows that some X-Rays can be emitted from as little as
> 14.2KV (0.10nm):
>
> http://web.unbc.ca/~hussein/Phys_101_Winter_2002/Phys_101_Ch27.pdf
>
> And a better representation of the other article I posted previously:
>
> http://www.belljar.net/xray.htm
>
> Hmmmmm....
>
> John :-#(#
>
>
>
>
>> At 03:04 AM 23/05/2003 -0500, Rodger Boots wrote:
>>
>>> Only if you watch the TV from 2 feet away. Double the distance and
>>> get 1/4 the dose.
>>>
>>> True enough though, an arcade monitor would smoke the flyback before
>>> the high voltage would get high enough to be a problem.
>>>
>>>
>>> mccullar wrote:
>>>
>>>> You've got far more to worry about from your TV set than from your
>>>> video
>>>> games. It's on far more often. :)
>>>

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Received on Mon May 26 09:58:44 2003