Re: Electrostatic deflection?

You could do it if you manufactured your own tubes and they had a mild
deflection angle, like 30 degrees. That would make the tube about 3 feet
long.
Too much work.

Thanks for the ideas anyway.
Don't want to quell creativity.

Happy Friday,
James

----- Original Message -----
From: Frank Palazzolo <palazzol@home.com>
To: <vectorlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 8:57 AM
Subject: Electrostatic deflection?

>
> I fully admit that I'm out of my league in these discussions...don't
> let these musings slow anyone down...
>
> I was thinking about the yoke issue, and am wondering if it's
> feasable to modify a vector (or raster) monitor to do electrostatic
> deflection. I think this is what oscilloscopes do.
>
> I can see a nice, simple assembly of four plates replacing a yoke,
> but I'd imagine you would need higher voltages to acheive decent
> deflection. After all, oscilloscope tubes are long and skinny.
> I think the nice part would be driving a high impedance instead of a
> low one...
>
> Is this possible or am I just dreaming? ;)
>
> Thanks,
> Frank
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Received on Fri Oct 22 09:02:05 1999