Philco Roundie Hybrid

[DaveWM]

I wasn't planning on starting this thread for a while since I really did not think this set would just work, I planned on putting it in the que and starting a thread after I had some thing to talke about.

Well...

I tested the CRT, test good on all guns for emissons and cut off.

Since the guy I bought it from had turned it on to show me it worked (was not hooked up to a source and I could just barely see a red raster, hence the check of the CRT) I figured I would try it with a video source and see.

It has a very dirty tuner, so I had to find the sweet spot it it actually works pretty well. I will have to play with the CRT drives to balance the color (I could not find any tint control, and I guess the guy had been messing with it).

I could turn down each gun and then turn them up one at a time and get a nice red, then green then blue pic. A little messing about and I got a decent pic.

Its a tad short on vert deflection. I figure I should at least pull the chassis and check the bypass caps on the vert amp. There was not a hint of hum bars in the pic or hum in the audio. The pic was nice and clean.

I will get a screen shot later...

Its in a rather compact metal case which should complement my Maggie B&W console nicely (I plan to watch color on this and B&W shows on the maggie).