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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,sci.energy,sci.electronics,sci.environment
Subject: Re: VDT Electric Fields
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Date: 12 Feb 91 20:51:35 GMT
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I'll bet the high voltage of the monitor was causing the flourescent light
to glow.  I've found that a neon bulb can often be made to glow by holding
it near a TV set.  This is a totally harmless effect, unrelated to the
controversy about EM fields generated by VDT's and other devices.
In particular, color monitors use very high voltages (about 25,000 volts)
and at these high voltages some small amount of the electricity is
discharged into the air.