[Test-Equipment] RTV 141T CRT

[J. Forster]

There was recently a looooong thread on this issue on the HP-Agilent
Group. There are "neutral cure" RTVs that are apparently non-conductive.

-John

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> Jim,
>
> This has nothing directly to do with HP or CRT's or etc.  But RTV contains
> Acetic Acid, which is conductive.  If it fails to fully cure you have a
> leaky (electrically) situation.  I learned this (the hard way) decades ago
> building "chill chasers" for mobile pipeline X-ray units.
>
> In a message dated 3/9/2010 11:29:18 AM Central Standard Time,
> cmos at shol.com writes:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am not as familiar with the cable
>> on the 141T yet, I am still looking
>> for a tube for my 141T.
>>
>> But I have had a similar problem with an
>> HP 17xx. The cable de-laminated and was arcing.
>> I tried to rtv and what not, to no avail.
>> Finlay I just decided to take the HV part
>> of that cable out of the equation. I cut the
>> ends of the HV part of that cable out and
>> just run some 20kv wire between the HV board
>> and the crt anode. That solved that problem
>> on the HP 17xx, I am not sure if that will be
>> as easy to do on the 141T.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Jim
>>
>
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