View Single Post
  #19  
Old 03-31-2018, 06:00 PM
pdr-fml pdr-fml is offline
VideoKarma Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2016
Posts: 48
digital converter box

Quote:
Originally Posted by pdr-fml View Post
Yes I did verify its operation with with my old Panasonic "flat screen" crt set I keep up in the attic now.

I just found two problems tonight while verifying actual wiring with the schematics. One problem is what looked like a small solder bridge not real sure though and the big one is I hooked up a resistor wrong that I replaced when I did cap job. The resistor was supposed to be feeding a cathode of Horiz osc/control tube off the B- supply and instead of going to B- I had it hooked up to the opposite grid on same tube. NO wonder the horizontal has always acted crazy.
I will try to repair tomorrow and check more things. Thanks for the advice.
What I mentioned above turned out to be wrong the resistor was in correct location. In fact I have verified the proper connection of every single component and did not find anything connected wrong.

I have a few questions. I have included pic of my converter box. It is a Apex model DT250A. Does any one have any experience with this box working or not working with older set? My other question is can I feed the coax rf output (channel 3 or 4) from this box into the RF converter/mixer grid and expect a good signal or is it too weak. This would be bypassing the RF amp tuner stage where I think I may have a problem. I have successfully injected a 21.9MHz (audio IF for my set) FM modulated signal from my signal generator into the grid of the mixer and did alignment on sound IF (atleast I think I did - everything sounded good afterward). After I did the sound alignment my next check was going to be to see if I could get good audio using converter box. Well it did not work. All I got was buzzing noises. I am going to reverify my signal gen output accuracy but I think it is dead on it is a HP synthesized model. I even jacked around with the local osc adjustment for channel 3 and all I got was several FM radio stations coming thru nicely. I tried viewing signal with oscilloscope and never found anything that looked like video signal. So am I going to have to go thru tuner and RF amp?
Attached Images
File Type: jpg 20180331_165807.jpg (62.3 KB, 21 views)
Reply With Quote