That's why it says X-Ray warning on it...


CAUSE YOU NEED X-RAYS TO SEE IT! Ba-dum kish!

stare at the screen too long and you just might get that, along with a third arm, PREP THE SURGICAL LAZOR!!!

Lol, I love taking those apart. Never seen that label on one though, honestly.

They do look cool inside don't they

Yes.

...wat?

Haha I took apart a tv yesterday that was broken and it looked about like that. Broke the glass outside and it sucked in air really fuckin fast.

X3 it took me about 15 seconds to read this cause after each word i would glance back at your pic. *facepaw*

I lol'd

That's normally only a concern if the picture tube's operating at an unusually high voltage, or if you're right on top of it. A problem with the HV system, for instance, or certain tests, can cause problems.
I saw a similar warning in my TV set.

but why would you put it IN the monitor compaired to outside where it can actualy be read

Because it's not a problem in a normally working TV. The tube may normally operate at 23kV - problems may not occur until the tube's running at 30kV or above. Plus, this is more a hazard to the service guy who's right next to it, sticking tools in, than it is for the average user that's sitting five feet away or more, by which point the X-rays are negligible.

hehe i guess that does make sense :P

plus it's only a problem while running, so but to be perfectly honest, running it with the cover off has higher risks than the xrays.. More danger of slipping or ptouching something you shouldn't and shocking yourself

*ZAP* OOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWIIIEEEEEE

I've done that with LIL "powerful" electronics and welded the probes I was using to the wire, but that's got nothing on a tv/cr tube.

Naah, those tubes aren't giving any radiation, if you don't drive it with overvoltage like somebody said. And if you do so, it isn't harmfull, HV is more dangerous. I have played with these and i have no cancer or mutations(yet)
It could be possible to make x-rays with that way, coz theoretically working mechanism is same as x-ray tubes(witch are also pretty cool like all electron tubes :3)

And, those monitors really radiates little bit, not all electrons are stopped to front. Thats why old monitors makes your eyes red and there was protectors in market(15 years ago or something)

hehehe thats great, ^.^ thanks for the info, so what exactly did you do with one?

I trigged HV suply to higher, and burned dot in center because deflection wasn't working. I have also HV generator, over 2kV (TVs have 28kV), and i have shocked myself with it, so HV is much more dangerous than x-rays :D
Some monitors also can work overloaded and make more radiation, but they burn then (B+ a.k.a. main power trimmer turned to full, if i remember right)
CRTs can be used to this too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P8MNfQOKYc

So what exactly are you doing here, what causes it to show like that?

TVs and monitors works like this: electrons are accelerate to screen phosphor, and electron beam is deflected to draw picture. Beam draws every line and bounces back to top. Around the CRT's neck, there is two deflection coils, vertical, and horizontal. What i done, was that i sniped wires and connected deflection coils to amplifier, so i can drive them with audio. Two sinewave makes neat cosin plots, because there is x and y axel. Theoretically, i can show what i want with that, it's like mathematical xy coordination. Someday i do maybe oscilloscope clock with that CRT, i dunno, it's drawing speed is little slow for that, coz magnetic deflection not electric like in scopes.

Brilliant!!! what i wouldnt do to build something like that :P

So as "CAUTION! wet floor" sign in the celling. Like you can only read it ONLY if you falled already.

Btw, there's lots of radioactivity in the world, such as mobile phone, or TV station... we *uckin doomed

well we still have longer than if we tryed to get rid of it.

Makes sense.

oh well, either way its a fun ride.

That's only when the TV is on, and running. When you have the cover on, it does not allow you or your fingers to get too close to the TV tube.