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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. |
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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) ! 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? |
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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) ! 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? |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 . .. 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. |
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"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 |
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"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. |
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"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/ ********************************************** * Attend the 11th Annual NEBRASKA STAR PARTY * * July 18-23, 2004, Merritt Reservoir * * http://www.NebraskaStarParty.org * ********************************************** |
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