What can I do with my old perfectly good CRT monitor?

mentat_2

If it's broken you can contact your local council, who, by law, have to provide recycyling services for home electricals as it's illegal now to landfill CRT monitors.

mute_posting

Does anyone else see this thread as slightly ironic given the board title?

"What can I do with my old perfectly good CRT monitor?" and "Green and Ethical MoneySaving"

If it is perfectly good - why replace it?
I'm sure the environmntal impact of manufacturing a new monitor far outweighs the energy consumed by the CRT in relation to the TFT.

MP

Ben84

dccarm wrote: »

I stand corrected. The lifetime cost of a TFT is indeed lower than that of a CRT. This study here suggests a saving of about £10 per year in electricity, although it was done in 2002 so I don't know how accurate that would be now.

That study assumes a 17" CRT uses 103w average, which I consider very high. My 19" CRT uses an average of 85w (maximum is 93w). It's an old one too, the back is stamped 2001.

CRT screens are not huge electric consumers, most of them, even very big screens like mine consume less than ordinary 100w lightbulbs.

Most of the talk about energy savings and the impact of CRT screens has been from the companies who would like to convince you to tip your perfectly good CRT in the landfill and buy a flat screen.

Savvy_Sue

mute_posting wrote: »

Does anyone else see this thread as slightly ironic given the board title?

"What can I do with my old perfectly good CRT monitor?" and "Green and Ethical MoneySaving"

If it is perfectly good - why replace it?
I'm sure the environmntal impact of manufacturing a new monitor far outweighs the energy consumed by the CRT in relation to the TFT.

I've already told DS2 that if he doesn't want a laptop, he needs to at least upgrade his CRT monitor to a TFT before going to Uni, because I am not lugging his CRT monitor backwards and forwards for him!

Like ThemeOne, he doesn't like TFTs.

but if it's a good big CRT, offer it on Freecycle!

Savvy_Sue

apintofstella wrote: »

how about building one of these :idea:




see http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-160-1.htm

DH has just seen me looking at this. "Brilliant!" says he. "Don't even think about it!" says me ...

piloti

londonman81 wrote: »

Now I don't want to throw away the CRT as it works fine.

... then why buy the TFT ?

Sarcasm aside, I have to ask a couple of questions first....
Do you want to do something 'really' green, or just to make yourself feel better ?

If it is the first thing, then there really is not a lot you can do, as the 'cost' of shipping this stuff prohibits the offset made from not buying a new one locally. This is partly becuase the new 'locally' purchased screen will be shipped in [to where ever local happens to be] and is likely to be TFT and therefore lighter and therefore cheaper.

Local charities often don't want them, although, as some point out, there are one or two that will. Most do not, partly becuase of the cost of testing them before they resell them [the tests have to be done by 'certified' sparkies, not just 'yep it works....'] and partly becuase of the fear of being sued [US Style] if it burns your house down......

Re the second point [going green to make youreself feel better...] becomes more relevant as you realise there are less and less people who actually want it.

My [very personal] suggestion would be to wait until you have some PC spares, build a second pc, instal linux and run it as a server with seti@home running / a proper firewall / virus machine etc or, again as a second pc, give it to child / family who may be gragteful for a machine that, whilst it may not be up to World of Warcraft, being linux will be more than up to the job of almost everything else you could ever want to do with a computur. As an aside, the machine can have 100% free software on it, 100% open source software, thereby fulfilling a number of other MSE criteria about cost of ownership et al.

Long winded rant I know, but I hope this will help.

Cheerio.