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- From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
- Subject: Re: HELP! magnetised screen
- References: <1993Jan24.031604.6873@nctams1.uucp>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 13:38:47 GMT
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- Reply-To: sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
- Organization: Advanced Technology Dept., Harris ESS, Melbourne, FL
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.133847.25780@mlb.semi.harris.com>
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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.
- [DELETIONS]
- >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.
- [DELETIONS]
- >The above method is the way you use a "degaussing coil". 'Course
- >you don't connect the other end of the extension cord.
-
- This is astonishing. How does a coil of wire in which no
- current is flowing produce the magnetic field required for
- degaussing? Please?
-
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