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Old 06-30-2010, 05:40 PM
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strange horizontal problem

After running the set for a while, the horiz was shifted over a bit to the right with the horiz blanking bar right down the middle of the screen. I thought first, I have no problems with horiz size, and 2nd in order to have the picture visible like that the horiz oscillator also has to be at the right frequency, and because there was no trouble with the vertical, I figured the problem had to be in one of the few components coupling the sync separator to the grid of the horiz osc.

But I replaced them all, and it made no difference! Then I just swapped the 6SN7s from the horiz to the vert, and it fixed it. I originally had put the strongest testing 6SN7 I had in the horiz, but the horiz osc circuits in these sets just seem to be really picky about tubes. Remember in one of my Motorolas, the horiz wouldn't sync, and the trouble was a tube, which also didn't work as the horiz osc, but tested good and worked in other circuits.
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