Degaussing monitor

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Just wondering, would I be able to use a degaussing coil from and old monitor to degauss a monitor? I have a coil from an old monitor and I need to degauss a monitor. Never done it before so just wondering if I do it with the monitor on or off?I assume on but want to make sure, it is a medium resolution so I don't want to mess it up since they aren't easy to come by.
 
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Thanx, I actually haven't had the game on for a long period of time so I might leave it turned on for 30minutes to see if that will fix it before trying to degauss it. I read on a thread that might do it, is that correct?
 
You can also do it with one of those big old soldering guns. Not the little single tip kind, but the one that's about the size of a drill. Get one close (about a foot away from the center of the screen), then pull the trigger. Move in a circle around the screen and keep making a spiral circle out and farther away.

It's poor man's degaussing coil.
 
Personally, No.

I have one. I got one at an auction years ago. It's a nice one too. I used it once, thinking it would help me with a WG 4900. It didn't really help.

The monitors have a built in degaussing coil that works after the monitor has been off for about a 1/2 hour. New monitors have a button just like their computer counter parts.

I thought it would be handy for a cocktail I had. I used the trick with the soldering iron (a randy fromm trick) and it worked okay. I also found out that depending on where that machine sits, the screen gets screwy.

But after a while, the monitor will adjust itself, especially for the home arcade guy.

So no. Try the soldering iron instead. It does the same thing.
 
Funny that you say where the machine sits, the original color issue was in the bottom right corner but I moved the game and the right corner became fine and the color issue moved to the top left corner. Moved the game again and if I have it in a certain spot the screen is fine and there is no issues with the colors.
 
Do a search about degaussing on the forum and you will see it's the magnetic field of the earth. I notice it more in cocktail tables for some reason. Rotate the game 90° and it goes away.

The built in degaussing coil will do the job after a couple of days. I think ops used those hand coils so they would be ready right off the bat on site.
 
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