The most wanted German E1 was sold

[yagosaga]

Meanwhile the E1 is fixed and restaurated. When it was sold, it was in so bad condition that it was not operable. The main elko had a short and would burn the main transformer if it wasn't replaced. The condenser coil for the electron beam of the crt was broken, and some other more failures. Now it is working again, with original 441 lines video. Here are some photos of the restaurated and clean set:
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold.../img/E-1-1.jpg
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold.../img/E-1-2.jpg
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold.../img/E-1-3.jpg
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold.../img/E-1-4.jpg
More photos will follow.
Eckhard

[yagosaga]

Today I have got a photo with the E1 working. The input was a sine wave signal. This greenish white of the phosphor is original and not a tint of the camera.
In the next weeks I will get more photos of the E1 driven by an original video signal from a standard converter.

Eckhard

[Phil Nelson]

What a beautiful piece of history. I would love to have one, but I can understand the owner wanting to keep it in the country of origin.

[yagosaga]

Originally Posted by Phil Nelson

What a beautiful piece of history. I would love to have one, but I can understand the owner wanting to keep it in the country of origin.

It is the last remaining set of this model in operational condition. The screenshot demonstrates that the CRT has full beam current and is able to focus it correctly.
But as far as I know the owner and set will move to Switzerland. Such is life!
But before he will move, I will visit him. I will never be able to own such a rare and valuable set, but I only want to see the E1 working with an original video content of that time in my life. (And all the photos I will take, I will report here on AK!)
Eckhard

[roundscreen]

Eckhard.
Sorry I sound stupid but what is a elko? Transformer?? What is that set worth now that it is working? Did you get to help them restore it?
Ed

[yagosaga]

Originally Posted by roundscreen

Eckhard.
Sorry I sound stupid but what is a elko? Transformer?? What is that set worth now that it is working? Did you get to help them restore it?
Ed

Sorry, an Elko is the German abbreviation for electrolytic capacitor. What is the set worth now? I can't really estimate. I know that offers in the range between $60,000 and $80,000 exist. But the actual value might be higher.
I did not assist in restoring it. But I maintain the most detailed web page about the E1, and this was reason why the owner contacted me, to keep this page actual.

Eckhard

[roundscreen]

Hi Eckhard.
Nothing to be sorry about, I learned a new word and what it means. It must be so cool to be able to be close to a set that is so rare. I like the name of the tubes too. {valvo} Is that correct?
Ed

[yagosaga]

Originally Posted by roundscreen

Hi Eckhard.
Nothing to be sorry about, I learned a new word and what it means. It must be so cool to be able to be close to a set that is so rare. I like the name of the tubes too. {valvo} Is that correct?

Hi Ed. Valvo is the brand. I think it is much cooler to own a color roundie than to have an E1. The E1 is unique due to the few which survived. But from a technical view, the introducing of color tv by RCA was much more innovatively and exciting. TV watching on a color roundie is an adventure every time again. I believe that we have in Germany fewer American color roundies than surviving E1s. For myself, I would not exchange my CTC-5 for an E1.
Eckhard

[roundscreen]

Hi Eckhard.
You have the color roundie bug and I think you need more of them. I like the phillips roundie your buddy has. K1 I think? The way the chassis slides out the front was a smart thing to do and it has a vary good picture. You may find this interesting, Kamakiri was the man who saved your ctc 5. He traded your ctc5 with captianmoody for a rca g2000 {ctc 47a}. Then captianmoody did some work to it and sold the ctc5 to you. I just bought the g2000 from Kamakiri about a month ago. The g2000 was way a head of it's time. Was the first set with an electronic tuner. I will post a thread on this set when I get it done. Man, It has vary good color. This is way off topic so I will stop. Have a good day
Ed

[yagosaga]

Originally Posted by roundscreen

Hi Eckhard.
You have the color roundie bug

You are absolutely right. Roundies are the craziest tv sets I ever saw in my life, and even our childs like watching televison on the roundie.
But I don't have the space for another one. In the next days we will get our third child, and we need space for it.
Eckhard

[prewtv]

If you look on net for all E1 pages, looks like 4 different TVs.

http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold.../img/E-1-1.jpg
2 large, 2 small knobs, large handle on speaker grills, emblem #1.

http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...n/img/MfK2.JPG
4 large knobs, small handle on speaker grills, emblem #2

http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...n/img/MfK3.JPG
4 large knobs, large handle on speaker grills, emblem #1

http://www.earlytelevision.org/e1.html
2 large, 3 small knobs, large handle on speaker grills, emblem #2 with knob

[yagosaga]

Hi,

here are some new web pages with photos from the E1.

The restauration process of the E1:

http://www.fernseh-gmbh.de/e1.html

A newspaper report about the first operating of an E1:

http://www.fernseh-gmbh.de/artikel_a...er_zeitung.jpg

And a second working E1 on the International Berlin radio show this year:

http://neuerdings.com/2007/09/24/spi...vergangenheit/

- Eckhard

[andy]

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[tubesrule]

Thanks for linking these pictures Eckhard. The restored set in the first link is fantastic! The chassis looks unbelievably clean. It does appear that the one at the Berlin radio show has a different crt as Andy noted.

Darryl

[fsjonsey]

Does the second E1 have a modern set shoved in it? That CRT looks really different.