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The hardest part to build on an oscilloscope (while still maintaining
bandwidth) is the final deflection amplifiers. Something had occurred to me a little while ago. There is a readily available supply of chips that will do the job in a specific product. That product is CRT SVGA monitors. The video amplifiers that drive the grids of the electron guns. Normal supply voltage is 80 to 100V. Normal output swing is 10 to 75V or 10 to 95V Normal signal input voltage 0 to 5V They are capable of driving 8pf loads which is close to the value of a deflection plate. Output response times are 10us or faster. Some of the newest are down to 2.5us. Corresponding bandwidth is DC to 50 or 200MHZ They normally come in a self contained package that contains three amplifiers. Since most scope most scope tubes take less than 80 volts per plate for full deflection (all the ones i have seen), then they make a great deflection amplifier. They would be great for upgrading an old tube type scope up to a solid state 100Mhz unit. The rest of the amplifier chain would be easy to built. They would also be great for building a scope from scratch. Remember to keep lead lengths short, and use shielded interconnect cables, because at 100Mhz it will oscillate if it can hear it's self. That is what I am currently doing to an old EICO scope. I already have the vertical amplifier in place. It uses two sections of a VPS10S. For The horizontal amplifier I am going with discrete components, because it doesn't need to be as high of bandwidth. I have got the horizontal amplifier built, and I just need to get it mounted. The next stage is the amplifier stages between the input, and deflection circuits. They are all going to be 5V rail to ground. There will be a couple +10 and -5V point in the circuit for level transition, and signal inversions. And I have to build the horizontal oscillator and triggering circuits. The only thing that has been bugging me is, what can I do with the old tube sockets. I have been trying to think of some tube circuits I could use. The only things I could think of is a high impedance input buffer. Or use a 6AL5 as a wide band RF rectifier. Or I could put in a sweep oscillator and a IF amplifier and make a rudimentary spectrum analyzer. |
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