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Dont remember which IC but one of the IC's went disco by the mid 80's. Pissed off quite a few customers & us too. Trouble was those sets held up real good. The E08 as good as Zeniths but the Super Set 19" modular chassis suffered bad CRT's just like the consoles. When new the pix was spectacular. We mined the junk sets for the IC's but never had enuf........ 73 Zeno LFOD ! |
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Post the part number for that IC when you get a chance.
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Sylvania part numbers for ICs and transistors went something like 13-xxxxxx
edit: I have a schematic which shows a sylvania part # 15-37704-1 IC std 14 pin DIP with a block diagram having two "demod" and three color difference amps. Looks rather simple
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Hopefully tomorrow I'll get around to doing that. I was just watching The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and if you've ever watched that show, there's a lot of different colors and scene changes. All the different colors drove the Sylvania's color demodulator crazy. It was as if a minion was constantly adjusting the tint control, and sometimes, turning the color control to max and then back down again. Here you can get an idea of what is happening. Flesh tone is correct, but the ocean is both green and blue.
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I'm not sure I follow what's going on with the color, so forgive me for thinking out loud. If this set uses an IC for the color section, and it's basically working but varying, it could be the IC, but it could also be the control voltages, including intermittent connections, or problems with bad filter caps if the controls supply DC voltages rather than video signals. Also, does this set have some sort of automatic color switch that could be intermittent?
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As I recall, Sylvania had a CRT plant first in Emporium, PA then later a modern plant in Seneca Falls, NY. Thier color bright 85 replacements outsold RCA at our local parts house. i usually chose RCA for an RCA set, IIRC.
The RCA CRT plant in Lancaster PA (here I am) and Marion Indiana were also developing a better phosphor All these locations are nowhere near big cities. Those Engineer-Physicist types hated cities and I can understand why. Unfortunately all the old timers I meet from this RCA plant worked in power tubes and orthicons.
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Well, not so unfortunate if you are interested in orthicons. I would love to know the details of how the thin glass orthicon targets were created - like a thin glass bubble, but perfectly flat.
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