GE 810 restoration
 

I think I'll begin restoring my GE 810 10" tv. I like the looks of this set and I like how Bandersens turned out. Here we go....

Well the picture tube didn't test well and cooking it for 45 minutes didn't help much. Hopefully it will be viewable. Good news is that it looks like the flyback has been replaced. I've heard the originals are highly failure prone.

Flyback replacement is s GE 77J1

What makes you think it's been replaced? I'm pretty sure GE 77J1 is the OEM number.

The one pictured in the sams looks totally different.

The SAMs list GE part rto-054 as the original.

Well for what it's worth, 77J1 and RTO-054 both cross to a Thordarson Fly 3. However, I think the 77J1 is original to your set. I have that exact same flyback in an 830 chassis.

I think it's original too as it looks the same as the one in my 810.

That sucks. That got a 10BP4?

I wonder if that set is related to my 806, electronically? Same era set. I wonder if it uses the same flyback as mine....I think mine's original, but after warming up, mine really likes to sizzle:grumpy: I'll probably have to replace it, but that set won't ever really be a watcher for me so....

I brought it up slowly on a variac and the speaker buzzed really loud. I did get a dim raster and and a few thousand volts on the second anode. I've got a b-k CRT tester, which I've tested crts on them before that tested bad, but we're viewable.

I think they came with a 10FP4 originally. 806 is a series strung set and very different design. Flyback might be compatible though.

Loud hum from the speaker is a classic sign of bad electrolytic filter capacitors in the power supply. I wouldn't run it for any length of time without replacing those.

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Is a 10FP4 a direct replacement for a 10BP4, except it is aluminized? The RCA manual
implies that it is.

Yes. It's a straight gun, so no ion trap is needed.

My set doesn't have the 2000uf cap on top like the sans shows, but is mounted underneath. It has the cage over the flyback, but it has screw holes for a door on the back. Does anyone have one do I could get dimensions to make one? I have the cage in an earlier picture above.