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Old 11-18-2019, 01:04 AM
vortalexfan vortalexfan is offline
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OK so a little update, I dug out an old B & K Precision DynaJet 666/606 Tube Tester that a friend of mine gave me and I used that to test some of my tubes in my TV including my 1B3GT tubes.
Apparently the most crustiest nastiest looking 1B3GT tube I had in my tube stash which was a Sylvania 1B3GT tube turned out to be the best 1B3GT Tube I had in my stash and all the other ones (including the one that was in the TV when I got it that was marked "VEE" on it that I thought was actually the best tube of them all) turned out to be bad.
The B & K DynaJet 666/606 Tube tester puts a load on the tubes as if they are in circuit when testing the tubes so you get a real world test result as to whether or not the tube is actually good or not so the test results are more accurate.

The interesting thing is that the B & K Tube tester tested the crusty looking 1B3 tube as being almost NOS in the Quality Test and the Grid Emissions test showed no Deflection at all, and the other 3 tubes that my Sencore tube tester tested as "good" the B & K tester tested them as bad including the 1B3 tube that was marked "VEE" on the base (which the Sencore tester tested it as almost NOS).

So it seems I may have found my new go to tube tester...

Also when I put the Sylvania 1B3 tube into the TV the screen's brightness and contrast improved greatly and is now even brighter than it was previously and the weird focus issues that were going on with the contrast and brightness controls being rotated cleared up significantly as well.

I still need to adjust the vertical and horizontal size and linearity yet but I think Its definitely an improvement over what it was previously.

See picture below for what the picture looks like now with the good 1B3 tube in it.
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Last edited by vortalexfan; 11-18-2019 at 01:22 AM.
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