[ale] OT: 2 Monitors

[Jeff Hubbs]

Barring that, steel will do.  

I'm pretty sure that the alternating mag fields surrounding a typical
monitor way exceed 0.5 gauss in any case.

- Jeff

On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 17:17, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Grounding won't help for a metal shield between them. That will only
> absorb electric fields. You need a special type of metal called "mu"
> metal. It has the unique ability to absorb magnetic fields. A single
> layer 1/32" thick is adequate for negating the 0.5 gauss magnetic field
> from the earth. 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 15:00, Brian wrote:
> > I asked good 'ole google/deja regarding this issue to
> > no avail so I'm wondering if anyone can give me some
> > hints. I need to run 2 monitors "side by side" running
> > from 2 different machines (linux & openbsd). Both are
> > Sony trinitron; 15 & 17 inches.
> > 
> > However, I have a problem running them at the same
> > time coz a flicker and a moving horizontal lines are
> > sickening. I understand that this may be due to
> > magnetic interference between the two monitors but I'm
> > wondering if there is a way to remedy this. Putting
> > grounded metal sheets in between perhaps? 
> > 
> > I tried to separate them for a feet or so which is the
> > max. distance my table can give me with no discernible
> > difference.)-;
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
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