Amplifone boards on K6100 tube/yoke?

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Here's one for the vector gurus : Can I run Amplifone boards on a WG K6100 tube and yoke?

There are countless threads mentioning the opposite situation, where people attempt to run 6100 boards on their Amp tubes - which evidently doesn't work out well enough, due to convergence issues caused by differing deflection angles. But can you go the other way with it? Who has tried? What results?

If the Amplifone boards work on the 100° tubes in the 25" cockpit, running a 6100 yoke (the only 100° native yoke of course); and then also on the 90° 19" Rauland/Amp tubes (with appropriate 90° Amp yoke) - Doesn't it stand to reason that the Amp boards themselves are fully cross-compatible between either 90° or 100° tubes, regardless of size, so long as the correct degree yoke is used? In other words, what I propose would work, and even converge correctly?

Remember now, don't get it switched - I'm talking a 6100 tube, with yoke and rings, being driven by Amplifone boards (HV and deflection).
 
Yes you can try it and see how it looks

You will probably get bowing out

Also every time you move a yoke there will be convergence issues anyway.

Therefore if you converge it properly the only issue you may have is bowing.

Not such a bad thing
 
Re-converging is a non-issue. I stumbled onto a 6100 tube with yoke and rings still firmly attached, we just can't find the boards :eek:

The bowing outward is, again, the consequence of the opposite setup of what I propose, due to mixing deflection angles (100° boards driving a 90° tube). I'm talking about a 100° tube, 100° yoke, and boards that are obviously capable of driving either angle tube - So would there actually be any geometry issues? And if so, wouldn't it go the opposite way and bow inward?

It looks good on paper :p
 
Electrically, it'll work (with possible geometry errors). Only problem you'll have is that the Amp tube and the 6100 tube have different neck connectors. The pinout is the same, but the physical plug is different. You'll have to do some kludging :)

-Ian
 
Dig deep fellas

Neck connector is also a non-issue. Connecting bits of wire to pins is child's play.

I'm just not seeing how there can logically be any geometry issues at all, given the angles and hardware proposed.

Looks like I've asked yet another stumper that noone has actually tried...
 
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