{"id":501278,"date":"2022-10-15T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-dont-tvs-zap-you-with-static-anymore\/"},"modified":"2022-10-15T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T12:00:17","slug":"why-dont-tvs-zap-you-with-static-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-dont-tvs-zap-you-with-static-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why Don\u2019t TVs Zap You With Static Anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25db03a624c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25db03a624c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-dont-tvs-zap-you-with-static-anymore\/#%E2%80%9CWhy_Dont_TVs_Zap_You_With_Static_Anymore%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Why Don\u2019t TVs Zap You With Static Anymore?&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-dont-tvs-zap-you-with-static-anymore\/#Heres_Why_Old_TVs_Were_So_Staticky\" >Here\u2019s Why Old TVs Were So Staticky<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-dont-tvs-zap-you-with-static-anymore\/#Why_New_TVs_Arent_So_Staticky\" >Why New TVs Aren\u2019t So Staticky<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWhy_Dont_TVs_Zap_You_With_Static_Anymore%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Why Don\u2019t TVs Zap You With Static Anymore?&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage wp-image-840190 size-full\" data-pagespeed-no-defer=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TVStatic3.jpg?width=1198&amp;trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"A vintage television set with a thick glass front.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data-crediturl=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/vintage-analog-tv-knobs-electronics-concept-1945341217\" data-credittext=\"Stokkete\/Shutterstock.com\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"type:primaryImage imagecredit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/vintage-analog-tv-knobs-electronics-concept-1945341217\">Stokkete\/Shutterstock.com<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Back in the day, your television set could generate enough static that it would raise your hair and even let you torment your siblings with comic-villain-like static zaps. But today, not so much. Where\u2019d the static go?<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Heres_Why_Old_TVs_Were_So_Staticky\"><\/span>Here\u2019s Why Old TVs Were So Staticky<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To understand why old television sets had the power to make the hair lift right off your head if you leaned in close, turned your cat into a spikey-haired mess if they walked by and rubbed the screen, and granted you the power to zap people (or yourself) with a single touch, we need to dig into how those old CRT behemoths worked.<\/p>\n<p>First, let\u2019s look at a cut-away diagram of the inside of a cathode ray tube (CRT) television to identify the key parts of good old-fashioned 20th-century television set.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-840180 size-full\" data-pagespeed-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TVStatic1.jpg?trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"A ray-trayed CGI render of the inner workings of a CRT television.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data-crediturl=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:CRT_color.png\" data-credittext=\"S\u00f8ren Peo Pedersen\/Wikimedia.org\" src=\"\/pagespeed_static\/1.JiBnMqyl6S.gif\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"imagecredit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:CRT_color.png\">S\u00f8ren Peo Pedersen\/Wikimedia.org<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>First, we have a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of electron guns (1) that fire a stream of electrons (2) from the rear of the tube toward the beam mask (3) that separates the red, green, and blue elements of the picture. The beams pass through the super-fine mesh of the beam mask and hit the phosphor-coated inner side of the TV glass (4). The inset magnification (5) shows the beams hitting the phosphor layer and exciting the phosphor, which creates that iconic TV glow.<\/p>\n<p>The entire process was very high energy. In fact, if you\u2019ve ever heard somebody warn against opening up an old TV set because the shock could potentially stop your heart, they were giving you sound advice.<\/p>\n<p>Old sets contain a transformer that outputs high-voltage electrical current to power the electron gun. That constant barrage of electrons against the metal screen behind the television\u2019s thick glass generates a positive static charge. Left alone, the static charge will slowly dissipate into the room, but if you bring anything with a negative charge (like your hand) close to the screen before that h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens, the object will be attracted to the screen.<\/p>\n<p>At fairly low levels, you\u2019ll feel the charge as a sort of static hum or pull, at higher levels, you might even hear it crackle a little as your hand moves over the screen, and if the static build-up is high enough, it\u2019ll \u201cjump\u201d off the screen, and \u201czap\u201d you.<\/p>\n<p>This is also why old televisions seemed to get so dusty all the time. Dust particles floating in the air anywhere near the television were drawn as if the screen was a vacuum cleaner, right to the glass.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_New_TVs_Arent_So_Staticky\"><\/span>Why New TVs Aren\u2019t So Staticky<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-840189 size-full\" data-pagespeed-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TVStatic2.jpg?trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"A modern living room with a large flat screen television.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data-crediturl=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/panorama-elegant-designed-living-room-window-1696314580\" data-credittext=\"Dariusz Jarzabek\/Shutterstock.com\" src=\"\/pagespeed_static\/1.JiBnMqyl6S.gif\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"imagecredit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/panorama-elegant-designed-living-room-window-1696314580\">Dariusz Jarzabek\/Shutterstock.com<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It would be incorrect to say that newer flat-screen televisions have no static at all. All electronic devices in operation will generate a little bit of static.<\/p>\n<p>But unlike the giant cathode-ray tube firing off a constant stream of electronics towards the glass in an old television, modern TVs are a much slimmer (and lower power) affair without so much electron slinging going on.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of using a lot of energy to excite a phosphor layer coating a thick piece of glass, modern TVs instead use a much smaller amount of energy to signal individual tiny pixels in a very thin grid to turn on or off.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly how that arrangement of pixels works and how the specific signaling is handled varies between flat-screen technologies. However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> premise holds whether we\u2019re talking about an old flat-screen computer monitor or a shiny new OLED TV.<\/p>\n<p>So although both an old CRT television and a new flat-screen television use electricity, the amount used in modern TVs is much lower and isn\u2019t used in such a fashion that it generates a significant electrostatic charge on the screen\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll still get a little more dust on the body of your flat-screen TV than you would on a similar-sized but not electronic object placed in the same location, but most of that will be attracted to the plastic body of the TV and not the screen as would historically have been the case.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does that save you on dusting, but you\u2019ll also save on power. Modern TVs, even living-room-dominating ones, have a much lower operational and phantom power load than older TVs. So you\u2019re saving time dusting, not getting zapped by the screen, and saving money on your electric bill while enjoying a much higher-resolution picture.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n setTimeout(function(){\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s) } (window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n   fbq('init', '335401813750447');\n   fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  },3000);\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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