Solar storm etc

During the solar storm & the one 2 days or so after, my pc's
monitor kept changing picture width slightly (annoying) !

Today it started again, so is there another solar / geomagnetic storm?

Some of the width changes have been larger & more 'violent' than
the first two times. It never gives me any problems any other time.

Regards.

"amazure ²°°³"
wrote in message ...
During the solar storm & the one 2 days or so after, my pc's
monitor kept changing picture width slightly (annoying) !

Today it started again, so is there another solar / geomagnetic storm?

Some of the width changes have been larger & more 'violent' than
the first two times. It never gives me any problems any other time.

Regards.



The Green led's in my truck odometer and radio display turned blue for a
while about the same time.
Hmmm?

I did it with my mind.
"amazure ²°°³"
wrote in message ...
During the solar storm & the one 2 days or so after, my pc's
monitor kept changing picture width slightly (annoying) !

Today it started again, so is there another solar / geomagnetic storm?

Some of the width changes have been larger & more 'violent' than
the first two times. It never gives me any problems any other time.

Regards.

Yeah - mine's started doing that when I've had the monitor switched off - I
think there must have been a surreptiously installed windows update for the
graphics accelaorator recently.

Basic elctronics tel me, that when a electro-magnetic storm can have an
impact large enough to overload a power station, it wil influence your
monitor aswel.

My sony tv is mounted on an rotating platform, so I can view television
whereever I sit in my living-room. When I rotate too fast, I get a funny
coloured didtortion at the corners. And that's just the influence from the
earth magnetic field.


"ck26" wrote in message
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Yeah - mine's started doing that when I've had the monitor switched off -
I
think there must have been a surreptiously installed windows update for
the
graphics accelaorator recently.

"Thijs Verbeek" wrote in message li.nl...
Basic elctronics tel me, that when a electro-magnetic storm can have an
impact large enough to overload a power station, it wil influence your
monitor aswel.

My sony tv is mounted on an rotating platform, so I can view television
whereever I sit in my living-room. When I rotate too fast, I get a funny
coloured didtortion at the corners. And that's just the influence from the
earth magnetic field.


Your impression is incorrect. The Earth's magnetic field is far too
weak to signficantly affect a TV monitor. A magnetic storm does not
directly affect a power station. What such a storm does is induce DC
electrical currents in the hundreds and hundreds of miles of
transmission lines in the northern regions of the Earth where the
field strength variations are significant. This can produce power
surges which the distribution network may be unable to handle.

David Knisely

"David Knisely" wrote in message
om...
"Thijs Verbeek" wrote in message
li.nl...
Basic elctronics tel me, that when a electro-magnetic storm can have an
impact large enough to overload a power station, it wil influence your
monitor aswel.

My sony tv is mounted on an rotating platform, so I can view television
whereever I sit in my living-room. When I rotate too fast, I get a funny
coloured didtortion at the corners. And that's just the influence from the
earth magnetic field.


Your impression is incorrect. The Earth's magnetic field is far too
weak to signficantly affect a TV monitor. A magnetic storm does not
directly affect a power station. What such a storm does is induce DC
electrical currents in the hundreds and hundreds of miles of
transmission lines in the northern regions of the Earth where the
field strength variations are significant. This can produce power
surges which the distribution network may be unable to handle.

David Knisely

They do make TV's (larger screens) with minor pincushioning adjustment switches for north and
southern latitudes. So, from that info, I'd say the earths magnetic field does affect TV monitors.
Now a CME is another thing alltogether.

"Martin Riddle" wrote in message link.net...
"David Knisely" wrote in message
om...
"Thijs Verbeek" wrote in message
li.nl...
Basic elctronics tel me, that when a electro-magnetic storm can have an
impact large enough to overload a power station, it wil influence your
monitor aswel.

My sony tv is mounted on an rotating platform, so I can view television
whereever I sit in my living-room. When I rotate too fast, I get a funny
coloured didtortion at the corners. And that's just the influence from the
earth magnetic field.


Your impression is incorrect. The Earth's magnetic field is far too
weak to signficantly affect a TV monitor. A magnetic storm does not
directly affect a power station. What such a storm does is induce DC
electrical currents in the hundreds and hundreds of miles of
transmission lines in the northern regions of the Earth where the
field strength variations are significant. This can produce power
surges which the distribution network may be unable to handle.

David Knisely

They do make TV's (larger screens) with minor pincushioning adjustment switches for north and
southern latitudes. So, from that info, I'd say the earths magnetic field does affect TV monitors.
Now a CME is another thing alltogether.


You didn't read what I said. I used the word "significantly". I have
not seen such a monitor of that size (a computer monitor, *not* a TV),
and certainly have not seen a "switch" for northern and southern
latitudes. I was operating my 19 inch monitor during the recent
massive geomagnetic storm and noted no changes in its performance. In
any event, if these TV's were not well shielded enough to kill off the
very slight effects of the Earth's magnetic field, then things like
nearby stereo speaker magnets or other appliances would be enough to
cause problems as well, and I would not want to own such a
poorly-designed set. Such a "switch" would be of limited use, as the
orientation of the screen relative to the Earth's field direction
would be a variable which would not be able to be compensated for by
simply switching something. As for a "CME" they are a single event on
the sun that ejects material into interplanetary space. They don't
get into the Earth's atmosphere and are only factors in helping
eventually to create a geomagnetic storm when that ejected material
reaches the vicinity of the Earth's magnetosphere. Clear skies to
you.

David W. Knisely
Prairie Astronomy Club: http://www.prairieastronomyclub.org
Hyde Memorial Observatory: http://www.hydeobservatory.info/

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"amazure ²°°³"
wrote in message ...
During the solar storm & the one 2 days or so after, my pc's
monitor kept changing picture width slightly (annoying) !
If your monitor is an older or cheapo model then it could be affected by
changes in line voltage, which in turn can be affected by the distribution
network responding to surges....which may be due to the current geomagnetic
storms. So yes...there could be a connection causual, and electrical!
Sally

Sally wrote:
So yes...there could be a connection causual, and electrical!

Well done Sally. Thats exactly what I thought reading all the posts...

Ivan