Re: Ampliphone HV-other options?!

Hi Clay!

You can't generate X-Rays without a vacuum, and a target (like inside a
picture tube or X-Ray tube)...just raw HV won't do it, otherwise those
folks living under/near transmission towers might have a problem...you
thus do not need to load down the HV.

John :-#)#

Clay Cowgill wrote:
>
> > We could hook up (backwards) a 50v
> > (25vct) transformer to the output of the 50v transformer supplying the
> > power to the monitor to get 120volts, but it's probably easier just to
> > find an isolation transformer. Up until the most current generation
> > of WG monitors, one was required, there must be many floating around.
> >
> I think we can get 1:1 isolation transformers for probaly $10-12 each.
> Maybe even less $$$ since we don't need as much current as "usual" (not
> driving the color guns and deflection off it).
>
> So is it "safe" for an HV transformer to have its anode coupled to ground
> through a resistor? (To just burn off the HV output without having to hook
> it up to an actual CRT.) Might not want to be generating soft x-rays while
> figuring things out...
>
> -Clay

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