The stat about how much heat a monitor puts out really got me

I was looking up ways to keep my desk cool (my little office gets brutal in the afternoon, like a greenhouse) and stumbled onto a fact that said a single 24 inch monitor can raise the temp in a small room by 2-3 degrees. I thought it was an exaggeration until I put a thermometer next to mine after an hour. It was reading 87 degrees, and my room was at 78. That honestly explains why my desk plants (succulents, mostly) always seemed droopy on the right side. Has anyone else noticed their desk stuff getting cooked by their screen?

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dylanward18d ago

Whoa, I gotta push back on that a bit. I’ve tested this with a temp gun at my own desk and my 27 inch monitor only raised the spot directly behind it by about 1 degree after hours of use. The rest of the room stayed the same. I think a lot of that heat feeling is just your own body heat and the sun coming in through the window, not the screen itself. Your succulents are probably mad about the afternoon sun hitting them straight on, not the monitor.

spencer_sanchez6718d ago

My buddy works from a tiny sunroom and he thought his monitor was melting his aloe plant. He moved the plant to the other side of the desk, same droop. Then he put a thermometer right up against the screen glass after a few hours, it read almost 95. He ended up buying one of those little clip-on fans just to blow across the top of his monitor and his desk temp dropped a solid 4 degrees. Now his succulents are fine.