From: rmg53668@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ryan M. Grant)
Subject: Re: TECH: Radiation
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 02:42:57 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana


TOBIAS@bonnie.physik.uni-stuttgart.de writes:

>> And small B&W CRTs are used in camcorder viewfinders: mine will put out 
>> only twice as much emissons: you don't see anyone trying to ban these
>> camcorder viewfinders, do you?

>Don`t know that. I don`t think that it`s very dangerous to use them
>in the normal way. But if you try to build up you own VR helmet (with
>CRTs) you will obviously spend a lot of time before the CRTs. And
>then I suppose it can be very dangerous. Because if it is bad for 
>you than the more it will be bad how longer you use the CRTs.

Gotta throw in a concerned "Yah" here.  Nobody holds their Watchmans two inces
from their face for hours on end.  "Normal use" has to effect the danger
ratings, and this doesnt appear to be normal use of a Watchman CRT.  Of course
this does not mean modified use has to be dangerous.

			- Ryan Grant