Re: yoke question for experts-only!

This isn't a tough question.. Im an idiot and I know the answer to this!
Go for it! I do this all the time.

I have a pet peeve about screen burn.. I hate it. Any game that goes in
the arcade ether gets its tube replaced or gets a new monitor. I started
my collecting career doing a lot of monitor replacing, until I ending
up with no money left, and a big pile of working monitors with Gauntlet
or Marble Madness burned in to the screen. One day, at an auction I
picked up a Wico monitor (an unknown, crap monitor that you cant / want
to find parts or schematics for) with the assumption that is was dead,
but I got it for the tube witch looked new. Long story short... the
chassis was a hacked up / burned up mess so I combined the tube / yoke
from the Wico with the chaise from a WG 4900 series. Presto... New
monitor. I have quite the combination of monitors now as I have done
this at least 4 times each time with a different chaise to different
series tube / yoke and only once did I run into a problem where the
picture was mirrored on the screen requiring me to reverse 2 on the yoke
leads.

A tip.
    What swapping out the tube / yoke, do NOT move the degaussing coil
with it. Retain the coil for the monitor board you are going to use. The
coils are tuned to the board (learned the the hard way)

Happy holidays, group.

-=Mark=-

 
peter jones wrote:

>a starting point - this is NOT vector related.
>
>if i use a tube/yoke with a different monitor
>and asuming differences with the tube are sorted,
>
>what is the chances that i can get full deflection from the replacement yoke without modifying the pcb?
>
>do you think i could get away with just ajusting the width/height/centering controls?
>
>the reason i am asking is because i have some 14" monitor machines with crap burned tubes here,
>and it just occurred to me that we are constantly throwing out 14/15" VGA monitors with fantastic hires black-coated tubes in them - seems a shame to waste tubes that good!
>
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