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Old 08-23-2011, 07:44 PM
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I've often wondered about the possibility of having new flybacks made to replace commonly needed ones that are now hard to find. With modern high temperature insulating materials you could make a CTC38 flyback that was practically indestructible. Unlike making CRTs, the tooling and knowledge needed to make HV transformers is still readily available. The trick would be finding a company that was willing to handle such a small job.
I wonder if, within the tube color TV world, the flybacks are similar enough electrically (impedance, transformation ratios, etc.) that a near-universal one could be built that only required shorting or opening various terminals/turns to adapt it to all the original circuits. Yes, there would be a lot of mechanical work required to make these connect to each chassis, but since most or all HV circuits are in cages, they would not be seen very easily, the same as putting new caps under the chassis of a TV as we do now.
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