Re: The magic HV unit

From: John Robertson <pinball_at_telus.net>
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 18:50:03 EDT

Looks VERY interesting, we should elect someone to get a quantity quote. I
still don't like the idea of a bunch of guys calling them, on the other
hand they do show credit card payment which suggests they are looking for
small volume sales...

John :-#)#

At 02:51 PM 12/04/2002 -0700, Zonn wrote:...
>"Model #2560-51 10 to 25KV" at the bottom of the page at:
>
> http://www.wintrontech.com/products/comhvps.html
>
>Does anybody know how much this costs? It looks like it would replace the HV
>section of any X/Y monitor?
>
>It wouldn't happen to be less than $200, would it? If so, the HV section
>rebuild is solved! (I'd be willing to buy one of these and retrofit it to a
>monitor and document the whole process.)
>
>Ok, now onto the Yoke...
>
> >----------------
> >We have to date, done very little on design of deflection yokes for
> >color in-line gun CRT's. This quantity level may be an opportunity of
> >interest to Wintron Tech., since we would not have off shore
> >competition. We would need more information about the specific CRT, H &
> >V scan frequencies and performance (spot growth, geometry, pincushion
> >correction, dynamic focus) requirements.
> >
> >If existing monochrome winding tools (arbors) and yoke hardware (cores,
> >terminal boards, and plastic insulators) could be used or modified to
> >meet these requirements, initial tooling may be minimized.
> >We would need a working monitor to develop and test prototype yokes.
> >----------------------
>
>I would suggest starting with a very available 25" med res tube.
>
>I don't know much about the other spec's except it sounds like they are
>talking
>about a raster yoke (there are no horizontal/vertical frequencies in an X/Y
>monitor). I really don't know anything about tube geometries, but shouldn't
>this all be available from the manufacturer?
>
>We should have inductances similar to those of the Sega G08 or the K6401. We
>might as well make this a high speed monitor!
>
>(The G08 fires were not because of its yoke, it was bad driver design,
>which is
>something that *is* under our control. Building a better yoke driver is the
>easiest part of designing a new X/Y monitor.)
>
>-Zonn
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