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		fennecbutt 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300 It's not the tube (which is just a chamber for an electron gun. It's the high voltage capacitors used to hold charge for the supply driving the electron gun.

userbinator 9 days ago [–]

It's the tube itself which forms the capacitor. I'm not aware of any sets that used a separate capacitor across the final anode voltage.

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