Re: Electrostatic deflection?

IF only the outer coils needed rewound this would be doable.
The inner coils are wound in a very odd way using special
machinery.

"Christopher V. Moore" wrote:

> At 08:57 AM 10/22/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >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
>
> Although possible, I don't think that it is a good choice. Way back
> when I was in college, my Emag Fields professor talked about the using
> plates verses yokes for deflection in a tube. The plates are a lot
> slower than using a yoke. He was an old school EE and his first job
> was yoke design. It has to do with the fact that you have move all
> that charge onto and off of the plates.
>
> I'm suprised noone has talked about just rewinding an existing yoke. If
> you are going to refit a raster monitor, the yoke form is already there
> and the geometry is already done. I think that just cutting off the
> old yoke wires and rewinding for vector is the way to go. Correct me
> if I'm wrong, but I believe that the X coils just divide the toroid in
> half vertically with each coil taking one half and the Y coils are just
> wrapped on top dividing the toroid in half horizontally.
>
> To find the number of turns can be done by counting up the number of
> turns on an existing monitor or just a couple of plug and chug equations
> since we know the inductance and wire size of an existing yoke.
>
> -Chris
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Received on Fri Oct 22 15:26:01 1999