Re: Amplifone tube.

Is the neck pin/connector compatible with the 61xx neck board?

Also, I always thought that the display corrector was needed because of the
tube differences between the 6100 and the Amplifone. Is it in fact needed
due to different deflection circuitry instead?

So, does that mean when I run Tempest no display corrector is needed but if
I run a Major Havoc board in my Tempest cab a display corrector would still
be needed (to obtain linearity nirvana)?

Thanks,
-roy-

----- Original Message -----
From: Gregg Woodcock <woodcock@fastlane.net>
To: <vectorlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu>
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 1999 2:40 AM
Subject: Re: Amplifone tube.

> >
> >I found a guy with an Amplifone tube and yoke out of a Star Wars. I have
no
> >idea of it's functioning condition, but it has only the tiniest of
> >center-hole burn and no other burn-in (that I noticed).
> >
> >Can this be used in a WG6100 chasis? Would I need Clay's display
corrector
> >to run it in a Tempest? Would I still need the display corrector if I was
> >using a Major Havoc board to drive it?
>
> Yes; this is what I have been doing with the tubes I run across. The
> picture is AMAZING with this tube in a W-G and the display correction is
in
> the yoke/tube; not in the monitor PCBs so everything looks the same on the
> picture is if it were the Amplifone PCBs. The only tiny problem is the
> corner of the HV unit actually touches the tube as the tube sticks farther
> back! The yoke wire needs NO MOD; it just plugs right in (don't let the
> wire color mismatch fool you). The yoke connector is different and I have
> been taking the tube connector off dead W-G monitors (lots of different
> models used the same one) and carefully removing the Amplifone one and
> transplanting the W-G one. Another more hack solution is to transplant
the
> yoke connector of the Amplifone onto the W-G neck board.
>
Received on Sun Oct 10 09:51:02 1999