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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!lucid.com!lnz
- From: lnz@lucid.com (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
- Subject: Re: HELP! magnetised screen
- In-Reply-To: isecpac@pnet16.cts.com's message of Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:16:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.060708.14885@lucid.com>
- Organization: Lucid, Inc.
- References: <1993Jan24.031604.6873@nctams1.uucp>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 06:07:08 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- In article <1993Jan24.031604.6873@nctams1.uucp> isecpac@pnet16.cts.com (Mr. Wally Izuo) writes:
-
- Roll a 6-10 foot extension card in a loop, about 1 foot diameter.
- (anything from 8" or so ... a shape convenient to hold in the hand
- and still maintain a loop). Plug one end into the AC outlet.
-
- Move the coil of wire around your screen in a circular pattern
- (once is usually enough) but when you come to the end of your
- circle, slowly draw the coil of wire away from the screen.
-
- You've got to be kidding. If one end is plugged into an outlet, and the other
- end isn't connected to anything, then no current flows through the wires, no
- magnetic field is generated, and nothing interesting happens. Or is the
- placebo effect supposed to solve this problem? :-)
-
- Leonard
-