[holmesuser01]

It's been a long time since the last post. I'm trying to clear out my house, garage, and workshop of unnecessary clutter, and I'm making some progress. I also aquired the RCA CTC-7 set, and got sidetracked with it for awhile.

I've replaced more electrolytics in the DuMont, and a few of the wax capacitors, so far. Also, got and installed the 3 HV capacitors. I've now got 12KV!! It's slow going, though, as I've not seen anything on the CRT screen, yet.

I'm seeing that I'm not getting anything from the brightness control, which is on the -55v line from the power supply. Gotta pull it back out to check. I'll also check out the selector switch to be sure everything is working at the TV setting. FM works, as does the phono setting.

The CRT voltages are mostly there... 300v, filaments, but nothing on the 65v cathode, or the -32v line at the grid. When I pulled the CRT socket completely, nothing changed, so I'm sure the CRT isn't pulling things down.

All I had to check the CRT on is my Sencore TC-109 tester, which shows the tube emitting at 96%, and takes almost 40 seconds for the emissions to start dropping after cutting power to the filament.

Any comments are always welcome. I've done just a few repairs on tube televisions. I made my loot on solid state!