Re: Electrostatic deflection?

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:36:51 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:

>On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Frank Palazzolo wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>Not that I know the answer, but this does remind me.
>
>While my scope was warming up the other day, and the dot finally appeared in
>the center, I started wondering -- how come a scope doesn't need a
>spot-killer -- why isn't burning out the center dot an issue ?

If you turn the brightness up high enough it will. We had a few scope
at my last job that had a few burnt spots.

For the most part a scope beam is never stationary, so it's not a real
big problem.

-Zonn
Received on Fri Oct 22 11:05:31 1999