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Mike A:
Nice work.

Vector games should be played on vector monitors.

Arroyo:
Damn Bobby you don’t sit still for a minute!

Looks like you beat me to posting this stuff. Nice job.

The boards from Barry are Amplifone clones. Nice part about Amps are they have pots that allow you to dial in the height and width as they vary the current flow through the yoke.

In an ideal world your yoke winding inductance and resistance would be almost the same (they are very close on 6100’s and Amp’s). This is because a vector draws free form in X & Y and therefore you want the chassis to be able to draw just as quickly in on direction as the other (a little more inductance for X due to the longer length) . You are able to have variance in those two as Jason pointed out because of the pots on the deflection board. With a 6100 you don’t have pots so that is where having the values close to the original yoke becomes important. If it’s any help Amp yoke readings are here:

Vertical - 0.6 ohms
Horizontal - 1.2 ohms

Vertical - 0.625 mH
Horizontal - 0.796 mH

I’ve come across a yoke like that one before. They just put a connector to the terminals rather than soldering them. It looks like your ferrite cores have a cover at the base. There should be a way of removing that to more easily get to the ferrites.

As for taking it off or winding it in place. Yeah ideally you remove the ferrites in place without moving it, but as you mentioned I think it’s just as easy to mark it and remove. The one argument for keeping it in place is convergence strips. If you have any either on the tube or embedded in the yoke then you will want to take great care in making sure they don’t move. Getting them back if you didn’t know where they went is the real trouble.

That tube is valuable if it is indeed a 100deg. Many mainland folks would be happy to swap you for a standard 90 degree 😁.

Keep up the good work.

Arroyo:
Oh and here’s my setup that I’ll be posting about at some point:

Mike A:
Nice.

This is good stuff.

abispac:
Keeping my eye on this one, it would be so freaking cool to build a vector monitor and play vectrex games on it. I still trying to figure out, so im reading over and over, please guys keep it coming. Thanks
OMG plaring starwars on such monitor.... :cheers:

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