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Post #5 by apm
Source Forum68kMLA
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Post DateTue, 20 Oct 2015 - 23:20
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/compact-mac-retina-display.2847/
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So the plan is to disconnect the horizontal coil on the yoke from the main analog board and connect it to a new drive circuit which does the same thing. The first goal is just to get a decent image on the screen with these two separate circuits, which should prove the concept. Then it will be a lot easier to change the yoke driver, because all the flyback transformer circuitry will be eliminated.

Here's the schematic of the yoke driver made from a modified SE analog board.

se30-yoke-drive.png

An here's how the modification works on the board-- greyed out components were either removed or are now unconnected, where red is for new connections. (C12 is wrong in the image below-- it should be .033, not .003)

se30-yoke-analog-mod.png

For testing I drove it with a signal matching the frequency and duty cycle of the logic board HSYNC. Here's a plot of the result, powered from Vcc = 20V. Green is the voltage at the base of Q2, yellow is at the collector of Q2.

Q2C_yoke_20V.png

The height of the yellow pulse scales linearly with the supply voltage (about 230V here). Without the flyback it's a much simpler circuit, and now we get a nice clean half-wave rather than the ringing waveform in the full analog board circuit.