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Hope everyone had a great Halloween. After the trick or treaters quit ringing the bell, I grabbed a Peanut Butter Cup and decided it was time to put some volts to the chassis.
Tonight was a meaningful night to do that as it was 50 years ago tonight that I, as a young trick or treater, saw color TV for the first time. I'll never forget when that lady opened her door and there in the living room was a huge wooden TV cabinet displaying a COLOR picture! (CT-100??) I don't think I even knew color TV was possible before that night. It was 10 years later when we finally got a color set.
Anyway, I removed the Horiz Output tube, plugged all of the coils and speaker, connected a few voltmeters and ammeters and started cranking the variac. I think it has been at least 15 years since this chassis had power applied. At about 90 volts I heard noise from the speaker and kept going to 115V. Voltages and currents did not seem out of line. I rotated the tuner one click and there was audio from the newscast! A little rotation of the fine tuning control brought it in perfectly. It is always a great feeling to have a set come back to life but this one feels better somehow.
I shut it down after about 15 minutes. after I took some readings. I noticed that the Field Neut. pot was a little warm to the touch. Not sure if this is normal so I would like some confirmation on that.
Here are my voltage and current readings and would be curious to know how these compare to other's readings. Again, no Horiz output or CRT so these will change.
Line: 115V 3.3A
380: 402V
375: 393V 50ma
285: 291V 275ma
275: 275V 140ma
175: 188V
-30: -23.7
I think I'll grab another Peanut Butter Cup. It was a good Halloween.
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Tim
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