Re: Potentially stupid Tempest question

Chris,

Thanks for the reply. I'll give it a whirl and see how it goes.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Loggans <chris.loggans@deltasolutions.com>
To: 'Vector List ' <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
Cc: 'Peter Fyfe ' <peter@bombjack.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Monday, March 27, 2000 9:11 PM
Subject: RE: VECTOR: Potentially stupid Tempest question

>Peter,
>
> I believe the answer is yes. I use the monochrome output to run
Tempest
>boards on my bench test monitor (TEK 603 x-y display) and it works fine. I
>have never tried it with a real B&W monitor, but I don't see why it
>shouldn't work there too. However, unless you are sure that the output is
>in the acceptable voltage range (ie not pinned to +/- 15v like a few boards
>I've seen recently), I'd test it with your VOM or o'scope before connecting
>it to the B&W monitor.
>
>-Chris
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter Fyfe
>To: Vector List
>Sent: 3/27/00 2:52 AM
>Subject: VECTOR: Potentially stupid Tempest question
>
>Dear all,
>
>I have a few Tempest boards that i'd like to test. Not having any spare
>colour xy monitors to use on my bench i'm wondering if i could hook it
>up to a monochrome xy monitor.
>
>From looking at the schematics a while back i noticed that there is an x
>output, y output , the three colours and a monochrome output *which is
>not used).
>
>Basically my question is ......can i use the monochrome output to drive
>the Z input on my Asteroids monitor??
>
>All suggestions welcome
>
>thanks
>
>Peter
>
>

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Received on Tue Mar 28 13:53:48 2000