Eric,
If your monitor does not have a degaussing button on the back, you can make a
degausser by taking a circular metal (magnetic) ring about 8-inches in
outside diameter, winding it with insulated wire and connecting the wire to a
dry cell battery, i.e., making it an electromagnet. Pass the ring around,
over, behind, and under (as far as you can) with the plane of the ring
parallel to the monitor. Keep the ring moving, not fast, but don't keep it
in one spot.
Typically you will have gaussing problems when you change the position of the
monitor as the magnetic fields of the earth and nearby electric/electronic
equipment have semi-permanently distorted the magnetic fields of the CRT
magnets.
Hope this helps.
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona USA
Eric S. Emerson wrote:
>>Thanks for the suggestion. I have had the monitor turned off and
disconnected many times but it never affected the picture quality. I had come
across the idea of degaussing somewhere before but I don't recall exactly how
to perform it. I think I saw a wire running around the circumference of the
screen which is supposed to perform the degaussing function.<<
