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From: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU.ucsc.edu (99700000)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Does anyone remember the Phantastron tube and how it worked?
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Date: Mon, 3-Aug-87 12:39:33 EDT
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Summary: That's phasitron, I believe

Believe you're talking about the phasitron(?) which was made by Sylvania.
Phantastron is a timing circuit that uses the constant-current property of
a pentode to charge a capacitor linearly - hence a linear rather than
exponential sawtooth generator.

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