Re: pc monitor as freq tube??????

[Guest guest]

> Seems to me that sbout a year or two ago someone was offering a

> downloadable program which sent the freqs right out the face of the

> Monitor. Was that someones dream, would it work, or was that a

> scam? I thot these were vacuum tubes, but on the other hand, the

> coatings probably gassify to low pressure while lighting the tubes

> with fairly low wattage much like the little fluorescents with

which

> we are all familiar (and which, wih hard UV shielding, would work

in

> a pinch). Scanning through the web about monitor tubes....seems

they

> need only about 25 watts to light. The 2n6059 which many of us

use,

> can stay happy to 150 watts......and conductive metal glues must

> exist with which to attach electrodes to opposite sides of the

> monitor....... Anyone?????? Del

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I think that you may have seen that on the " X " files, or re-runs of

the Twilight Zone maybe ?? A fanciful idea Del ..A CRT tube converts

electical signals to visible light.There is no mechanism that I can

imagine that allows a CRT to transmit any other type of signal or

radiation ..Even the minute amount of X-rays that CRTs radiate is

suppressed by CRT design ....Rgds P.

[Guest guest]

> > Seems to me that sbout a year or two ago someone was offering a

> > downloadable program which sent the freqs right out the face of

the

> > Monitor. Was that someones dream, would it work, or was that a

> > scam? I thot these were vacuum tubes, but on the other hand,

the

> > coatings probably gassify to low pressure while lighting the

tubes

> > with fairly low wattage much like the little fluorescents with

> which

> > we are all familiar (and which, wih hard UV shielding, would work

> in

> > a pinch). Scanning through the web about monitor tubes....seems

> they

> > need only about 25 watts to light. The 2n6059 which many of us

> use,

> > can stay happy to 150 watts......and conductive metal glues must

> > exist with which to attach electrodes to opposite sides of the

> > monitor....... Anyone?????? Del

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>

> I think that you may have seen that on the " X " files, or re-runs of

> the Twilight Zone maybe ?? A fanciful idea Del ..A CRT tube

converts

> electical signals to visible light.There is no mechanism that I can

> imagine that allows a CRT to transmit any other type of signal or

> radiation ..Even the minute amount of X-rays that CRTs radiate is

> suppressed by CRT design ....Rgds P.

Ummm...... thanks, , But this screen is my only x-file. We haven-

t had TV for several years and scarcely miss the commercialjunk or no-

quality shows. Del