[Alex KL-1]

You want to design a entire TV, including RF and IF, or making a monitor?

About the PSU: rectifiers will put some difficulties to the capacitive dropper, since it conducts only at peaks. Will work easier with full bridge rectifier.

Unfortunately, trafos are expensive, but is easier to work with correct correct voltages, and offer isolation (more safe for testings in the TV, a must when you design one).

Recently, I treated a disaster as an opportunity: I take an Admiral with damaged tuner ans missing various IF core slugs, and made a monitor inspired in the Conrac ones, with custom high quality video amplifier (wide bandwidth, heavily Conrac based). Resulted in a very sharp and at same time natural, basically without image artifacts in practice. The one of 2 most sharpy/clean 480i I have, and the one other are a modern 29" CRT with all goods for great image (I already built this one). The vertical stages are also custom. Only the H stage and power transformer are original from Admiral.

When time permits, I will post something about these 2 TV's.