Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!maytag!xenitec!lemsys!clemon From: clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: TURN COMPUTER OFF OR LEAVE ON? Message-ID: Date: 9 Jun 91 17:20:03 GMT References: <1991May24.033650.15836@cbnewsc.att.com> <20114@rsiatl.Dixie.Com> <1991May25.151636.679@monu0.cc.monas <1991Jun4.210249.1190@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu> <91156.110456GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> <1991Jun6.003043.28563@gucis.sct.gu.edu.a Organization: Not an Organization Lines: 22 In article <1991Jun7.163234.3445@val.com> ben@val.com (Ben Thornton) writes: >No, the 'burn' is cause by bombardment of phosphors by electrons. This is >what makes them illuminate, but it is also what causes them to burn. >Over time, any crt's phosphors will burn in this fashion, unless the >filament (yes, it's a fire bottle) dies first. > >Although motion in the video reduces the average number of electrons that >strike any given phosphor point, it is the absolute number of bombardments >that matter. Motion of the picture content, therefore, does not prevent >phosphor burns, it merely postpones it. > >-- >Ben Thornton packet: wd5hls@wd5hls.ampr.org What might be better to say is that instead of burning a pattern into the screen, IT BURNS THE WHOLE D**N THING! :) I _LOVE_ IBM, really. -- Craig Lemon - Kitchener, Ontario. Amiga B2000 UUCPv1.13D. clemon@lemsys.UUCP lemsys!clemon@xenitec.on.ca | Please Mail any binaries xenitec!lemsys!clemon@watmath.uwaterloo.edu | to 'files' at this site ..!uunet!watmath!xenitec!lemsys!clemon | instead of 'clemon'