Any post war Television Repairmen here?

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Well you got HV. Next I would do the power supply voltage checks, should be in the Sams.
 
RustyRatRod said:
I improved it. It's still not fixed.
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Hope you didn't fiddle with alignment of the wibbling pin attached to the wobbling shaft , that will double the output of the tristage isosillator which will cause an harmonic resonance imbalance wiping out of the flux capacitor and shoot your eye out.
good luck
 
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Avispa said:
Hope you didn't fiddle with alignment of the wobbling pin attached to the wobbling shaft , that will double the output of the tristage isosillator which will cause an harmonic resonance imbalance wiping out of the flux capacitor and shoot your eye out.
good luck
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I actually did and it transported me back to 2020 it sucked real bad for the second time.
 
Brooks James said:
You bet, In researching supercapicators, Im amazed that old tv capicators can hold enough charge after 10 years to knock you on your *** !! Im going to dissect them.
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Just wear a faraday suit...you'll be fine:

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Brooks James said:
You bet, In researching supercapicators, Im amazed that old tv capicators can hold enough charge after 10 years to knock you on your *** !! Im going to dissect them.
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ah heck why not, cheap entertainment and hobby
 
DodgeLad said:
ah heck why not, cheap entertainment and hobby
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We used to charge them up in the cal lab and when someone walked in we would toss it to them, but one of the stupider things we did was throw a couple of ounces of trich (Trichlorotrifluoromethane) (used to clean out gauges before calibrating them, freezes on contact because it evaps a below room temp, yep coulda blinded someone.
Then there's the time they gave us "line pukes" 5 gallons of toulene and some rags to clean the inside of an H-3G, in the winter with the doors closed, we was messed up in minutes to say the least.
 
Too late now, but use a Variac to slowly power up old radios and TVs.

Like others said above, deadly voltages in the TV.
 
DeltaV said:
Too late now, but use a Variac to slowly power up old radios and TVs.

Like others said above, deadly voltages in the TV.
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I dreamed about a variac the other night, yes i have a very dull life ! :)
 
There was a TV show that the guy wired up a CRT to an electric fence and zapped someone days later.
 
You don't really need a variac, you can rig up a lamp socket in series with a cord and fire it up with light bulbs for a limiter. I used to start with 60 W to look or smoke, then go up to 100W, 200W. Sometimes it's easier to put two sockets in parallel and the pair of them in series.

The great part about lamp bulbs is that they are quite idiot proof. If the load is a dead short, all that happens is that the lamps light

By the way I sometimes use this same idea when looking for a short in a 12V vehicle.

An isolation transformer, or at the least, "be very careful" is a good idea too, here's why:

Many older TV's don't use a power transformer, or may only "partially" use a transformer, sot that "straight line power" is into the TV circuitry on past the transformer. Some used "series wired" tube filaments, easily recogizable because of the odd tube numbers, or used only a filament transformer, and developed the higher operating voltage direct off the line.

THIS PUTS parts of the TV circuits and or chassis at line ground, and IF THE power plug becomes reversed, then the chassis is "HOT" with line power.
BE CAREFUL.

A "hot chassis" can also be "deadly" to your test equipment. With test equipment that is "3rd wire grounded" and you attempt to connect to one of these "hot" TVs, you WILL have a problem. Sparks, smoke, blown fuses, or damaged test equipment, TV, or "you."
 
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