9 Nov
2012
9 Nov
'12
3:45 p.m.
On 9 Nov 2012, at 2:54 PM, Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus wrote:
We have Sony Triniton monitors here, and I have
repaired them, many years
ago.
If I recall correctly, they still have 3 guns on the color monitors.
They do not; they have a single gun with three cathodes used in conjunction with a
aperture grille screen (hence the name, which is derived from "trinity", the
union of three, and "tron" from "electron tube"). When Sony's
patents ran out other vendors were free to use the technology but not the name, resulting
in things like Diamondtron, SonicTron, Technitron, MumbleTron, etc.
In the end it has nothing to do with the number of guns; it's conformance with a
standard.
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