HEY! let's all get together and pile up some stuff and re-create the photo :D

This pic sends me back to High school electron class.. we had tables and NEWER equipment, some of the old tvs though, It kills me they discontinued and tossed all that stuff and NOS surplus stuff after 1984...

SR

I suspect it is a water cooled air conditioner. Compressor and water cooled heat exchanger on the left and evaporator box is on the right. Most trade and techinal schools also had a referigeration school. The unit looks custom made probably cobbled together by the students of the referigeration devision.

If it's an air conditioner it looks like the condenser on the left is air cooled and so it would be for demonstration of the theory only, with condenser and evaporator in the same room. But it's really hard to tell!

I do see that the two bench test consoles on the right are labeled "Sylvania", so there is some type of brand-specific activity going on. That one roll-around unit with all kinds of test instruments on it is pretty impressive.

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Cool..... Home Grown A/C ! ! !

I think I saw a picture on one of the Oscilloscopes ! ! !

I like the guy leaning on the table in the auto repair coveralls lookin like he's too cool to be there ! ! !

And I guess that guy on the floor is adjusting something on that combo's turn table....

Neat pictures. Thanks... I enjoy seeing that type of stuff.......
Bill Cahill

I really like the detail in the blow up. I wonder why not one set has any kind of video displaying?? :scratch2:

Take another look. You will see a water pipe comming out of the ceiling connectd to a copper line that runs to unit on the right. There is also what looks like a copper drain line running from that unit down the steel I beam column. I cant quite understand how it is configured, but it appears that the unit on right is possibly a water cooled condenser. That would leave the open coil on the left to possibly an evaportor coil.

On the other hand maybe the rig is actually a dehumdifier. But with a connection to the water pipe, it suggests an air conditioner.

those benches that have the Sylvania logo are specifically for Sylvania products and if you were to work on anything else on those tables like rca , Dumont , etc you would be sent to the guillotine

Ha Ha! For a moment I thought the full door console in the blowup was a CBS 12CC2 field sequential color set. Cabinet is very similar.

-Steve D.