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Yokes, what's the difference?
Can anyone explain what is different about yokes that are designed for 53, 60, 70, and 90 degree deflection? Will a 70 deg yoke work in place of a 60 degree yoke?
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The difference is the amount the electron beam is deflected. Older CRTs (like the 10BP4) are generally longer so use a smaller 50º deflection angle. At the other extreme are the really shallow 120º tubes used in sets like the Predictas.
If you sub a 70º yoke for a 60º, I believe the edges of the picture will be off the screen. |
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I guess I was looking for a bit more detail. You can drive a 60 yoke more and achieve 70 degrees or drive a 70 degree yoke less and get 60 degrees of sweep. But there must be more to it than that or they wouldn't differentiate between them.
John |
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The yoke is wound to achieve the desired deflection angles, both vertical and horizontal. You will notice the difference between a 90 and 70 degree yoke.
The second consideration is impedance. The yoke must match, or at least be close, to the design impedance of the flyback and vertical output transformer. That assures maximum energy transfer from the output circuits to the yoke. A mismatch will show up as non linearity, drive lines and/or distortion. The third is the available output stage power. A 90 degree yoke will not always deliver enough width and height without the additional power necessary to sweep the sharper angle. There is some consistency within manufacturers, but not always. It is best to match the correct yoke and only use a substitute for testing. |
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The deflection should probably be linear with current. But as the beam travels a longer distance through the field at larger deflection angles it would start to be bent more than would be proportional to the current. So, they must wind it so that the field drops off more rapidly at larger angles? What do they mean by cosine wound? Is that related to the above? The impedance must be complex. Nearly purely inductive so wouldn't the power factor be zero? The field would be determined by the number of amp turns. The inductance would probably go as the number of turns squared. I would think that you would want the inductance as low as possible while keeping the amperage reasonable. So that the yoke would look like a low reactive impedance and the power actually being dissipated in a load resistor. That is the reactive impedance would be small compared to the load resistor. Is my thinking going wrong somewhere here? John |
Audiokarma |
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I've had second thoughts about my comments about needing low inductance. Driving it the way I envisioned would be inefficient.
Instead, the yoke probably does look nearly like a pure inductor and the parallel resistors that are added to dampen oscillations from the parasitic capacitance. The transformer will just transform this inductance so that the network of transformer and yoke will just look an inductance. This is then part of the resonant circuit that's being driven. So the actual value of the inductance of the yoke would be important. Does this sound right? John |
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Your thinking makes sense. Consider these factors as well. Maximum energy is at the center of the yoke. It is wound so as to deflect the beam with no neck shadows. Sharper deflection angles require flaring out the front to move the energy as close to the CRT bell as possible.
The yoke does look more like as inductor. The inductive energy stored during the trace scan is released on retrace. That energy is rectified by the damper and added to B+ to develop the higher boost voltage. The diode action also dampens the retrace ringing as well. To a point, higher inductance is beneficial. You will notice when you disconnect the yoke, the boost voltage decreases. Cosign wound is intended to compensate for the varying distance from the electron gun to the screen, depending on beam position. With this compensation, linearity would be more difficult to achieve. Don |
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Thanks Don, that helps.
My question was mostly out of curiosity. In the 1957 Merit catalog they state that "there are six different types of deflections yokes, without regard to the deflection angle." It wasn't clear to me what they meant by the last part of the statement. They go on to say that several different manufacturers will use yokes with the same horizontal and vertical inductance's, but that the damping networks may be different. Merit tried to choose their networks to work with most sets. Your comment about the bell shadowing is interesting. I'm having that problem with trying to use a 12LP4 in the Sylvania 1-108 chassis. I have to very carefully adjust the positions to avoid that. The yoke was designed to be used with a 10MP4 or 12VP4, but Sylvania also used the same part number yoke with a 16LP4 so I assumed it would work with the 12LP4. Of course I'm still operating it at a lower HV than is optimal for the 12LP4. I tried various 12LP4s and I was surprised at the differences in the bell shapes. I thought they'd all be the same. On one the transition between the neck and the bell looks just like it does on a metal CRT. John |
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The principles of horizontal deflection and vertical are different.
For horizontal deflection, the ideal is a pure inductance in which current increases linearly over time due to a constant drive voltage. In reality, there are resistive losses that have to be overcome, but the drive is still applied by hard-switching a voltage supply onto the yoke and then diode conduction (by the damper) of the current in the other half of the sweep. Tube and transistor circuits differ in that tube circuits generally are higher impedance (higher voltage and lower current) than transistors. For vertical deflection, the operation is much more of a linear amplifier arrangement, although there is enough inductance to cause a pulse voltage on retrace. By the way, this makes it possible to use feedback techniques to make the current perfectly linear and eliminate a manual vertical linearity adjustment (which I recall was done in some Zenith designs). |
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The damper must live a hard life handling the dump. John |
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