21-CT-55 power supply failure

[Penthode]

Originally Posted by miniman82

The line moves opposite of the picture. That means it's not a drive thing?

Yes, that means that either the retrace is a bit slow or the CRT is not blanked off during retrace. It isn't a drive line that you see.

The one white line is probably a video overshoot meaning that the perhaps a sync pulse edge is causing the line on retrace. The multiple lines to the left of it are the individual cycles of burst. The overshoot will generally be due to IF alignment or if the fine tuning moves the video carrier too far down the Nyquist slope. Do you see the line with the video injected at baseband?

I have seen the line made more obvious if the CRT RGB screen adjustments are set too high: they have to be set to ensure the beam current extinguishes on retrace.

No blooming, seems to have plenty of brightness. BTW, Wayne is probably right about the picture. It seems to be noise, not hum or anything else.

Then that sounds okay to me. If it is picked up at the receiver front end, could it be your workshop fluorescent light?

[miniman82]

Since it's not a vertical blanking issue, how exactly does this chassis blank horizontally? I don't see a blanking tube.

[Penthode]

Originally Posted by miniman82

Since it's not a vertical blanking issue, how exactly does this chassis blank horizontally? I don't see a blanking tube.

There is not blanking circuit as such. Blanking is done by the video waveform. Hence if the if there is a bad VIF response or misadjusted fine tuning, high video frequencies will overshoot producing a white line.

Try adjusting the fine tuning and reduce the RGB CRT screen adjustments.

[miniman82]

Here's a scope trace, maybe you can get something from it.



Bottom is the composite output from the generator, top is from the grid of the second video amp tube. It does look like there's some fuzz on the blanking pulse, like the whole signal slid over a little. If so, are we talking sync issues or IF issues?

[Penthode]

Originally Posted by miniman82

Here's a scope trace, maybe you can get something from it.



Bottom is the composite output from the generator, top is from the grid of the second video amp tube. It does look like there's some fuzz on the blanking pulse, like the whole signal slid over a little. If so, are we talking sync issues or IF issues?

Maybe IF and maybe sync. Maybe both. What I am trying to say is that if the video frequency response is not flat or the phase response linear, you can get an overshoot at the sync pulse rise and fall. Getting a good wide bandwith with the tube technology of the past was a bit of a challenge. The problem is exaserbated with the use of vestigial sideband trasmission: broadcast transmitter design went to great lengths to try to mitigate the problem.

Also the broadcast sync waveform had a carefully controlled rise and fall time to help reduce this effect. Your test generator might have too fast a rise and fall time which may cause problems. Your modulator, like most consumer modulators, is double sideband so that should not cause a problem.

If your IF response is not flat or if the video carrier is too low on the Nyquist slope of the VIF response, this could lead to the white line appearing. I have attached a jpg photo I found on the web to illustrate what I had expected the sync to look like as applied to the CRT. Your waveform seems to have very fast rise/fall time sync pulses. Try expanding the waveform around the sync fall as an overshoot there may be seen in the video as the white vertical line.

Are you injecting at baseband or RF input? If at RF, if you adjust the fine tuning control to raise the video carrier to the top of the Nyquist VIF slope (that is adjust until you begin to lose picture detail and color and picture starts to smear) see if the line diminishes.

Lastly, consumer DTV boxes have proper broadcast sync rise and fall times so see if another video source causes problems.