Re: Smaller CRT's + Starblade/Starwars conversion

You could make a little current sensor winding on the Amplifone HV
transformer and have them turn on when the amplifone is really drawing
lots of vectors on the screen ie. death star explosion. :-)

> Hi,
>
> I've been thinking of going the other way - but cheating kinda :-)
>
> I want to mount a 25" Amp in place of the normal 25" raster in my
> Starblade.
>
> Basically turning my Starblade into an enviro starwars. hehe
>
> I have a sw loom spare and the monitor - albeit I would have to nick it
> out of my cockpit.
>
> It would make a great 50" + Starwars what with the curved mirror
> projection system used on Starblade.
>
> The only thing I don't know whether it would be possible would be to use
> the strobes in Starblade. Could you somehow incorporate them to start
> from a specific signal from the board/monitor upon the deathstar
> explosion?
>
> oll
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Matt Rossiter
> To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 8:41 AM
> Subject: VECTOR: Smaller CRT's
>
>
> I was just thinking of some interesting ways of making my test bench
> smaller because of my limited space. A little while ago I scanned in
> the B&K CRT Setup Chart which not only makes a good cross-reference
> guide, but also allows you to cross-over different sizes by looking at
> the matching CRT adapters.
> http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/tech/bk-rejuvenator-setup.pdf
>
> So, a 19" amplifone CRT (19VLUP22) should be compatible with anything
> using adapter #23 according to the Setup Chart right?
>
> I found a 13" CRT (13VBLP22) that uses the same adapter and a 15"
> (15VATP22). You could probably build a cool cocktail star wars game
> with a 13" monitor. :)
>
> For Wells Gardner 6100 the 19" tube is 19VLUP22 and uses B&K CRT
> adapter #24
>
> So does 13VAYP22 and 15VAYP22.
>
> So, I suppose the only concern might be the size of the yokes, but for
> bench test purposes it might not make that big of a difference.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> Matt

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Received on Tue May 13 16:28:27 2003