Sony KV-1205

[zenith2134]

Has anyone got one of these Trinitrons? It's a pushbutton from '78... Scored it last summer at my deceased doctor's estate sale. It was a bedroom set hooked up to its built-in dipole, so it saw little use after the DTV changeover, and little use in general.
Tube is razor sharp, bright, and the guns all track evenly.

Ran into a little trouble with intermittent start-up. The channel indicator would light, and HV would attempt to come up, but then fail. The second attempt always turned it on.
The fix was to change out a 10uF electrolytic near the horizontal output transistor.

I went ahead and reflowed the soldering on the video out board when I acquired the set, since my KV-1215 and KV-1510 both needed this done.

But all in all this thing has a great pic.. the most contrast I've ever seen out of a vintage TV.
Photo is from the 1988 movie "Pulse"