RE: CRT radiation

[Douglas Simpkin <dsimpkin@execpc.com>]

At 09:58 AM 2/16/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Ok, I have to jump in here.  The radiation produced in old vacuum tube TV
>sets did _not_ come from the CRT.  

There's a nice (and brief) summary of this on pages 3-6 in NCRP Rept No 95
(1987). It sites the sources of x-rays in the early color TV sets as
"...the picture tube, the shunt regulator tube, and the vacuum rectifier."

Aint bremsstrahlung great!

Doug
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