RE: G-05 monitors

G'day folks,

I got paper copies of the Star Tech journals from 1978 to 1981 if you'd
like me to look for that circuit?

                Steven S Ozdemir
                sso@dsc.com

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>From: Zonn[SMTP:zonn@concentric.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 1997 4:54 PM
>To: vectorlist@goonsquad.spies.com
>Subject: Re: G-05 monitors
>
>At 02:25 PM 8/6/97 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>I just got some mail from Frazee saying that he has a bunch of G-05's that
>>aren't too burned in. Do you remember looking at any of these when you were
>>up there Joe? I've started working on a little cine -> G05 adapter board
>>using modern (.ie still in production) parts, duplicating the
>>DAC/switch/Filter
>>of the Cine monitor and thought it might be worth picking up a couple if
>>they were cheap enough, and weren't toast.
>>
>>On a somewhat related note, it looks like the LF13201 switches used in the
>>AVG
>>are out of production now, along with the LF13331's used in the Cine, so
>>folks
>>might want to start watching for old stock in surplus places..
>
>Those things (the LF13331's) are on the top of my "Most likely to die" list.
>
>The last time I looked Digikey claimed to have 600+ instock, I bought 10 so
>make that 590+. The're $5.35 a piece but if you have as many of these
>monitors as I do it's not so bad of an insurance policy.
>
>>If someone has found plug-in replacement, it would be nice to know about it.
>
>Cinematronics did have a replacement for this part since even at the time of
>manufactoring they were hard to come by. It required a daughter board, but
>according to a tech "he thinks" it was to drop some voltages, and change
>pinouts. None of this does anyone any good just yet, because I can't
>remember the name of the part. (I can get the name.)
>
>Either way I saw that there is a description of the circuit on that
>StarTech(or something) CD they want $300 or $400 dollars for...
>
>All said and done if you're re-designing the board this should be an easy
>part to replace, (I wouldn't use either of the above) it just needs to
>switch positive and negative voltages. The current handling is not great,
>and can easily be calculated (I would if I had a schematic here in front of
>me).
>
>-Zonn
>
>
Received on Wed Aug 6 15:02:34 1997