Hickok 246 Bar Generator

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Originally Posted by Electronic M

G1 should be negative WRT cathode so logically the yellow stripped ones are the cathodes and RGB solid are the grids... pretty sure that was standard color code going back to the late 50s too.

I feel so stupid not being able to fully understand this, so I just spent a bit of time reading all I could find. So now I think I have it. The Cathode is first in line and is feed the 14xV from the video outputs. The next is grid 1 that is feed from the 240V boost and is the 34.6V (these should be negative voltage). The next is grid 2 fed by the 750V boost. Lastly is the Focus fed by the tripler.

So if I do have this correct, then I need to use the gun killer leads on the solid color leads, R, G and B.

What are the consequences if I hook the gun killer leads to the wrong grid?