Re: The long history of Cinematronics and Vectorbeam

From: Al Kossow <aek_at_spies.com>
Date: Wed May 26 1999 - 21:41:07 EDT

>It makes you wonder if you could not use them in a PWM mode. That
>would be very efficient heat wise, but I'm sure the PWM frequency
>would have to be very high. But I know they've built audio amplifiers
>this way!

        A deflection coil would be an inductive load, though... wouldn't
ringing be a problem?

You've described a class D amplifier. The only thing I've wondered is if
there would be any remnants of the 'carrier' visible as the beam was
deflected.
Received on Wed May 26 20:41:58 1999

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