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CRT_Ben
Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 1684 Location: Northern Virginia
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Link Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:44 pm Post subject: Any reason focus yoke can't be in front of convergence yoke? |
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Oddball question, I know. But I'm thinking that it might help focus my oddball LUG copies a bit better, so I'm curious to try it out. I assume it wouldn't damage anything for long-term operation?
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tse
Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 1014 Location: Sweatbucket, Fl.
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Link Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:16 am Post subject: |
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That doesn't sound like a good idea. I recommend using old tubes that you don't mind destroying before trying with good tubes.
Scott
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ecrabb Forum Moderator
Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 15909 Location: Utah
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Link Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:40 am Post subject: |
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I'm totally guessing, but I would think you'd NEED to focus (shape) the electron beam before you could deflect it. Otherwise, how can you possibly focus it if it's already being deflected all over the place? I would guess focus and convergence would both be dorked.
SC
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CRT_Ben
Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 1684 Location: Northern Virginia
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Link Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:44 am Post subject: |
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ecrabb wrote: | I'm totally guessing, but I would think you'd NEED to focus (shape) the electron beam before you could deflect it. Otherwise, how can you possibly focus it if it's already being deflected all over the place? I would guess focus and convergence would both be dorked.
SC |
Hmm, good point. I think I'll abandon this idea.
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Chuchuf
Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 548
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Link Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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Ben,
If you want to try something on your 9500 to improve the focus, Galen did this thing of moving the focus coil further forward by cutting off the mounting tabs on the rear of the deflection coil which allowed the focus coil to slide further forward on the tube neck.. By doing this I believe he was able to get better edge focus with much lower numbers.
Mind you this was done with KD22-22 focus coild so I don't know what the difference if any would be on stock focus coils.
Terry
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zGman
Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 599
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Link Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 5:31 pm Post subject: Focus coil experiment |
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Hi,
This seems like a worthwhile experiment for Ben to consider -
the convergence yoke is not needed to test the focus, and not hard
to remove, with some care it will separate from the deflection
yoke. With the conv yoke removed there will be plenty of room
to slide the focus coil around in search of the best performance.
This could be done on just one tube, and will let you know if the
focus can be improved on these tubes, and if so - then you can
look for ways to get there.
I am assuming you are already using the correct 9" coils, I am
pretty sure Terry found that 8" focus coils wouldn't focus 9" tubes.
Regards,
Galen
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CRT_Ben
Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 1684 Location: Northern Virginia
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Link Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 5:39 pm Post subject: Re: Focus coil experiment |
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zGman wrote: | Hi,
This seems like a worthwhile experiment for Ben to consider -
the convergence yoke is not needed to test the focus, and not hard
to remove, with some care it will separate from the deflection
yoke. With the conv yoke removed there will be plenty of room
to slide the focus coil around in search of the best performance.
This could be done on just one tube, and will let you know if the
focus can be improved on these tubes, and if so - then you can
look for ways to get there.
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Terry, Galen,
Thanks for the suggestions - I'm going to give that a shot and see what I can do with modifying the deflection yoke. Before I do though I'll test as Galen suggests and see if moving the coil farther forward helps the focus (with the conv. yoke off the tube entirely).
zGman wrote: | I am assuming you are already using the correct 9" coils, I am
pretty sure Terry found that 8" focus coils wouldn't focus 9" tubes.
Regards,
Galen |
I am still running the 8" coils...I wonder if Curt has any to swap?
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Gino
Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Posts: 1363 Location: Trinity Beach, AUSTRALIA
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Link Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 1:17 am Post subject: |
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interesting, looking forward to hearing how this works out
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David_Web
Joined: 02 May 2007 Posts: 418 Location: Sweden
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Link Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:10 am Post subject: |
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Sounds like a good plan as you usually don't 'need' convergence on green anyway.
Unless you want perfect geometry that is.
If it goes well for you I might try it as well.
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Graham Johnson
Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 241 Location: Melbourne Australia
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Link Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:21 am Post subject: |
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Moving the focus coil back and forth changes the electronic focus centre.
Have a look at a BARCO. One of the focus steps is to centralize the electronic adjustments. Then slide the focus coil back and forth for best focus.
Net result is NO advantage.
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David_Web
Joined: 02 May 2007 Posts: 418 Location: Sweden
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Link Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:01 am Post subject: |
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Are you sure?
By moving it back and forth and compensating electronically you change the focal length of the magnetic lens. This must have some sort of impact.
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Chuchuf
Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 548
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Link Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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Graham Johnson wrote: | Moving the focus coil back and forth changes the electronic focus centre.
Have a look at a BARCO. One of the focus steps is to centralize the electronic adjustments. Then slide the focus coil back and forth for best focus.
Net result is NO advantage. |
Huh?? If I am reading you correctly, that just isn't true.
Take and set you center electronic focus to 50 on your Barco. Loosen the focus coil and slide it back and forth on the neck. What happens? The focus changes. You then set the coil position for best focus at 50.
I guess what you are saying is that you won't really get a sharper focus from this? But it will certainly change and you can center you controls with this procedure.
With Galens mod, he said he was able to produce a better corner focus (not center) with a much more centered electronic control in the corners.
In Bens case, he is fighting these non-standard tubes that Johnson sold him that weren't really designed for the Marquee and he can't achieve focus on. So I think it would be a worth while experiment on his green tube to see if positioning the focus coil further forward will help him achieve focus.
I have doubts he will ever get a good focus out of these tubes.
Terry
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Chuchuf
Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 548
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Link Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:47 pm Post subject: Re: Focus coil experiment |
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zGman wrote: | Hi,
I am assuming you are already using the correct 9" coils, I am
pretty sure Terry found that 8" focus coils wouldn't focus 9" tubes.
Regards,
Galen |
The one brief experiment I did with the 8" focus coils was interesting. Same part number as the 9" focus coils but couldn't achieve the same focus on a 9" tube as the 9500 focus coils. Kind of wierd. And as I said I only did it once on one tube so I wouldn't consider it to be a fact.
Terry
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Gino
Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Posts: 1363 Location: Trinity Beach, AUSTRALIA
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Link Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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That's strange. So are you saying all those who want to do 8500 to 9500 conversions should get the 9500 magnetics also?
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zGman
Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 599
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Link Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 4:16 pm Post subject: Marquee 9" Focus coil - Part #'s |
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Hello,
I just checked two sets from 2002/3 model year.
9" coils -
rdf: 21.696.01P
type: 9251.24
n/s: 146 F 4
8" coils -
P/N: 9251.51
C/N: 21.695.01P
S/N: 00008 K 3
Barco also uses different part #'s for 9" machines.
I think that somewhere a while back tse mentions there was
a different initial calibration of the magnetic field strength for
the permanent magnets, which do most of the work.
From my experiments and experience, the better you can
get the center focus without using the electronic controls
(ie setting electronics to midposition) the easier it is to
get the outer zones to come in with less electronics.
And the less the outer zone focus is used, the less chance
you will get those strangely twisted scan lines at the edges.
1292 coils do benefit from being further foward, I machined
the housings to a snug fit over the clamping tabs of the conv
yoke(with the clamp removed), which gave me about 8mm.
MarkH in Oregon also tried this with good results, he was happy
to finally get his corners to come in.
I also found that the 1292 coils seem to work better when they are not
reversed in their housings. Which stands to reason, why would Sony
go to all that trouble and then install it backwards?
Regards,
Galen
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