Re: Vectrex Yokes

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 00:40:55 -0500, "Jilayne Stanclif" <jstancliff@mchsi.com>
wrote:

>HI guys,
>
> In my never ending quest to master the XY yoke I have made an excellent replacement for the Vectrex (yeah I know they never go bad, but thats not the point) also I know you guys are not the Vectrex club, but I had to tell somebody ;)
>
> This is all leading up to the big brother yoke for the new color XY arcade monitor.
>
> Anyway if anybody wants the skinny on how it's done let me know. I used a wyse 150 yoke. These are still available new or surplus so this is a cheap yoke to hack and make work for the vectrex. I gotta pat myself on the back though.... You can't tell the difference between the picture quality of the original and the modified wyse yoke except I have not adjust the linearity with the little magnets yet to make the edges look perfect ;)
>
> So now somebody needs to make a replacement circuit for the deflection using LM1875's or some cheap audio amp and get a sub on the tube (although I bet the wyse tube would work fine just need to make a high voltage circuit thats no problem)
>
> Anyway if you guys are not interested in this let me know and I won't bring up vectrex stuff just arcade stuff.
>
>Thanks,

I'm interested, plus who's to say a small 9" X/Y monitor wouldn't sell?

Desktop Star Castle anyone?

Can I assume you are re-wiring the vertical coils to be in parallel instead of
series?

Sounds pretty cool to me!

-Zonn
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Received on Thu Jun 20 23:08:04 2002