Duncan's 1960 Magnavox

[Mr.Duncan]

Today's the day!

Finished replacing the last multi sectional capacitor.

The old one was VERY swollen and leaking fluid.

I powered the set up slowly with a variac.

At full voltage I'm pulling 2.5 amps which seems to be normal. No abnormal sounds, no arcs.

The photo below kind of exaggerates how bright the tube filaments are glowing. Much more mellow in person.

I'm getting just a non-adjustable horizontal line across the screen.

So I'll need to do some reading as I have no clue what controls the vertical movement of this line?

**I only ran the set for about 30 seconds with the screen set to minimum brightness** - didn't want to burn the CRT.

PXL_20240806_221113960.PORTRAIT by Thomas Duncan, on Flickr

PXL_20240806_225509131 by Thomas Duncan, on Flickr

PXL_20240806_230959278 by Thomas Duncan, on Flickr

PXL_20240806_230953330 by Thomas Duncan, on Flickr

The safety glass in the display makes the line look much thicker than in person.

PXL_20240806_225528496 by Thomas Duncan, on Flickr