Panasonic plasma sub field drive recap Service Manual

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Plasma Sub Field Drive Recap: 
 
The 3 phases for firing pixels are given below and is called a 
SUBFIELD: 
 
INTIALISE ----
Æ
 ADDRESS (SCAN) ----
Æ
SUSTAIN 
 
These steps create light from pixels. 
 
Initialize
Address
Sustain
Address
Address
Period
Period
Sustain
Sustain
Period
Period
One Sub Field
One Sub Field
(Set up)
3-1.  Sub Field
3-1.  Sub Field
(Scan & Write)
(Emission)
Purpose: 
Control  Each Pixel’s Brightness Individually
 
 
1 Initialise phase resets all pixels 
 
2 Scan phase writes WALL VOLTAGE to all pixels on a line by line 
basis 
 
3 Sustain phase drives the entire screen to produce brightness 
from the pixels that have wall voltages loaded.