[simpits-tech] Vector displays...

[Cris Harrison]

On 02/20/2014 07:21 PM, Matt Bailey wrote:
> Yep, that is COOL. I have been chatting with a cockpit builder in
> Czechoslovakia who passed a couple of links to me on how to use an
> oscilloscope tube with plain old VGA, but as I recall the circuits were
> a little more complex. This could make spectacular looking old-school
> monochrome weather radars on old general aviation pits, also. In the
> true spirit of hacking, there are also folks who have taken TVs and
> converted them to oscilloscopes.....just for the sake of making a thing
> do stuff it was NOT originally designed to do, I suppose. :)
>
> I'm very interested in using the oscilloscope guts to drive other types
> of CRTs.....I realize some circuit modification to the old scope may be
> needed, but it would be great to drive the CRTs that are in original
> aviation equipment. I have a Bendix radar I would like to drive, and
> driving the tube in a Stormscope would be really cool also.
>
> I still have a sneaking suspicion that it would not be that difficult
> to feed an unmodified weather radar the required signals, I just don't
> know what those signals might be!
>
> Matt
>
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:50:29 -0800 (PST)
> geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
>
>> Here's a perfect solution for the RWR and TEWS users in the audience:
>>
>> http://hackaday.com/2014/02/19/vector-display-output-on-an-oscilliscope/
>>
>> He's actually doing it from a VGA port!
>>
>> g.
>>
>>
>
>
you can look up the tube that you are going to use that gives the info 
you need...
and if the tube has a yoke on it.. you will need that too...
the question is the amps for x & y, and the HV... that would be nice to 
harvest as much as you can but you will need the print of the doner~~~
Cris H.