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Old 01-09-2016, 03:22 PM
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The GE monitor will be the next to get serviced.....It is perhaps the first GE device with a CRT I've opened up that I can honestly say looks very well built.

I'd guess this was a non-standard size rack-mount chassis given that the only way to remove the chassis is from the front, and that the 6 screws holding it were on the face panel.



The four jacks on the back seem to be V sync, H sync, and two bridged video terminals. I've found a switch on top of the chassis for selecting internal or external sync so it would seem it is designed to be capable of syncing to composite video....That will make feeding this set video much easier!



All the tubular caps are in nice easy places to get to, and of nice common values that my dwindling cap stock is still flush with. The variety of different cap types from Sprague Vitamin Q to those cheap yellow "Astron" caps often found in Heathkits of the era makes me wonder if it was repaired a lot or if GE just used whatever caps were cheap any given day of the week.... There was also a solder splash in it that would support it being serviced at some point.
It says 'GE closed circuit television' on the front so I'd guess it is an industrial, but not broadcast monitor...Still it is built well enough to be either.
This will be my first time restoring an industrial grade tube device.




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