Will my lcd screen get damaged from the sunlight?
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DrPizza
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A lot of glass already filters out UV light. There are some products (I'm recalling plastic beads) that change color in UV light. i.e. they're white if you have them indoors, but look a different color when taken outside in the sunlight.
If the UV light is already getting filtered in your glass, don't worry about it. If it isn't, they make a clear plastic that goes over the glass, almost like after-market automobile tinting, except it isn't tinted, and it filters out the UV light.
If the UV light is already getting filtered in your glass, don't worry about it. If it isn't, they make a clear plastic that goes over the glass, almost like after-market automobile tinting, except it isn't tinted, and it filters out the UV light.
UV rays will eventually damage ANYTHING. and sooner than you think.
Can you at least put up a window tint-like UV blocker on the skylight?
Can you at least put up a window tint-like UV blocker on the skylight?
I have seen in a classroom a purple paper that turned yellow 3 months of being on the window.
Glass filters out uv?
Maybe 3 years. I'll upgrade in a year or so but it will then be in use for someone else.
My 5 year old dell 15 inch lcd is in use in my dads office and all he does is check email.
Throckmorton
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I was paranoid about this. After some googling, it turns out direct sunlight can and will screw up your screen. Not sure how long it takes, but after spending $700 on my monitor, I'm not risking it.
Right now, my monitor is at a pretty oblique angle to the window, which recieves direct sunlight for 2 or so hours during the morning. The window is covered by a pretty opaque, but thin curtain. Some light gets through, but it's been diffused and at a really low angle, it should be ok. Then again, I'll probably be ditching this monitor in 2 years so whatever.
Right now, my monitor is at a pretty oblique angle to the window, which recieves direct sunlight for 2 or so hours during the morning. The window is covered by a pretty opaque, but thin curtain. Some light gets through, but it's been diffused and at a really low angle, it should be ok. Then again, I'll probably be ditching this monitor in 2 years so whatever.
mrSHEiK124
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The LCD in my TomTom ONE survived -5 F for an entire day. It had the response rate of a puppet show for about an hour, and it's still kickin now 
That purple paper turned yellow did so just because of heat/cool process from sunlight. OR else it's been located in chem lab and vapors might have accelerated this process.
Actually some LCDs are designed to be used in the sun (transflective and reflective) but if you have a typical transmissive LCD (desktop/most laptop LCDs) then you probably want to avoid excessive sunlight. Heat damage might be possible but I don't know what the UV rays would do.
That's besides the fact transmissive LCDs will be very hard to read in the sunlight to begin with, especially with glossy coatings.
That's besides the fact transmissive LCDs will be very hard to read in the sunlight to begin with, especially with glossy coatings.
Can you give an example of transmissive LCD?
Is it LCD on my cell phone? (PITA to read in the sun)
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