How Come Early CRTs contained more Ions?

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by jeyurkon

Same for my Sylvania. They list it as a beam bender, though in a few places call it an ion-trap.

John

I wonder if someone once called it the "ion-trap magnet" (as in "the magnet associated with the ion trap"), and that quickly got shortened to "ion trap?"

(Just as people refer shortly to a transistor radio as a "transistor.")

[jeyurkon]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

I wonder if someone once called it the "ion-trap magnet" (as in "the magnet associated with the ion trap"), and that quickly got shortened to "ion trap?"

(Just as people refer shortly to a transistor radio as a "transistor.")

I hadn't thought about that. When I when back to look at the service manual, when they don't call it a beam-bender they call it an "Ion trap magnet." They always included magnet. It does make more sense.

John