If i put 2 samsung 955df's right next to each other, are there any possible problems?

[5489]

i had an old old packard bell monitor right next to my 955df. and the picture became a little distorted on my 955df when the packard bell was on. should 2 955df's run fine? Do you think anything happened to my current 955?

 

[MasterHoss]

You might encounter some interference between the 2 monitors. I have my Samsung 900NF a good 5" away from my Sony G520.

 

[5489]

how about the computer, how apart should the computer and the monitors be?

 

[LikeLinus]

I have Dual 21" monitors (one is an FD Dell and the other is an FD IBM) sitting RIGHT next to each other. When you turn on the monitors, the other one will flicker just a tad from the degause of the other monitor, but they have been perfectly fine and no image problem what so ever for over a year.

Those are both Trinitrons. I dunno if the 955 is?

 

[5489]

does the flicker stay for the whole time?

 

[odog]

if he's rockin dual 21" trinny's i doubt he'd deal with even a hint of a flicker....


the monitors should not effect each other.... the old packard bell could easily throw off stupid amounts of RF, as they were built before certain standards were set.

as he said the power on is the killer.... as it can hurt all the devices as the 120v line drops well below the 100v mark when the PC and dual 19" and or dual 21"s fire up.

 

[hmsrolst]

I'm not sure the 955df is that well-shielded. I have a small Cambridge Sound Works speaker close to mine, and if I run the monitor at anything less than 100hz (I use 1024x768, but you can't run any higher resolution at 100hz), I get flicker in the corner closest to the speaker.

 

[thraxes]

Hmm I would say the older screen is not well shielded for EM radiation, it's something that has been done well only recently in all price ranges, before only the more expensive models were shielded enough to be placed directly next to each other.

No problems putting 2 new monitors next to each other, at school in the CAD lab they multiple monitors, some are Samsung 950Ps and others are LG Flatrons (of course always matching pairs). When one screen is already on and you power up the one next to it (really next to it, the cases are touching eachother) you get a short flicker on the one runing but it is gone as fast as it came.

missread post, altered reply accordingly

 

[5489]

how far apart should the monitor and the computer be?

 

[Adul]

a distortion in the space/time continium will appear and thus suck you in for enternity.

 

[Gosharkss]

There is a good chance that the monitors will interfere with each other. Common symptoms are scrolling dark bars, wavy image and color purity problems. There is no cost affective way to shield the monitors from these magnetic fields.

 

[Jgtdragon]

I have two monitors side by side at work. No problem at all.

 

[tokamak]

in our computer lab at school the computers sit back to back. we always freak out the people sitting across from us by degaussing which in turn degausses their monitor. if you have a lot of radiation or whatever built up you can get kinda a chain effect goin lol. they dont bother each other normally, though and they're just crappy old Compaq monitors.

 

[odog]

Gosharkss: since your definitely the guru on the subject. are their any ways to prevent these symptoms?

 

[Gosharkss]

Metal particularly aluminum does nothing to shield magnetic fields. The metal shielding you see in many monitors is designed to reduce high frequency radio emissions, not the low frequency magnetic emissions. Iron, or steel are not very good at shielding magnetic fields either. In fact if you remember from your high school physics class. Simply running a coil of wire around them and introducing an electric current can magnetize iron and steel. Remember the nail coiled with wire attached to a battery experiment where you pick up paper clips.

The magnetic fields are influencing the defection yoke directly and come in from all sides of the unit. The deflection yoke inside a monitor and TV is basically an electro magnet. Instead of using it to pick up nails it is used to deflect the electron beam..

Unfortunately there is only one way I know of to shield a monitor and its not cheap or guaranteed to work 100%. The only way to shield magnetic fields is using an alloy called Mumetal. Monitor manufacturers use Mumetal to shield magnetic fields. For more information on Mumetal
http://www.mushield.com/material_specs.html

Unfortunately Mumetal is very expensive. Your only other option is move them away from each other.

 

[GrumpyMan]

I have a 21 inch Mitsu. 2060u and a 900SL Samsung and they are 3 inches away from each other at the bezel or screen for lack of a better word. However I look straight in to the 21 incher and I have the 19 inchers ass angled away at about a 30 or 40 degree angle at the back so there is almost a 12 to 14 inch separation and faces me at an angle to my right hand side. I have had no issues whatsoever with this setup yet as far as interference or anything else for that matter.