RCA 630TS - Modified with Motor

[Steve McVoy]

You can see the wheel position sensor in the last picture.

[hi_volt]

That would be pretty cool to find the rest of the color wheel adapter and put it back together. What are your plans for the set?

[cbenham]

Originally Posted by Steve McVoy

You can see the wheel position sensor in the last picture.

BEcause of the blue coil wrapped around the flyback transformer and the modified relay coil for a position sensor pickup, I'll say this was a Colordaptor conversion. With a color wheel you can probably make this "color" set work again by looking through the Colordaptor pages at the ETF website: http://www.earlytelevision.org/search.html Lots of images and information here.
Type colordaptor into the search blank and about 6 different articles will appear.

One of them has a .pdf of the entire colordaptor manual which you can download.

Besy luck!

[old_coot88]

Old friend of mine built this one back in the day. His daughter donated it to the Museum after he passed on. They actually got it working at one point.
http://www.earlytelevision.org/colordaptor.html

[decojoe67]

I've seen a lot of vintage TV's over the years, but sets with that conversion are extremely uncommon and part of television history. It would be great to restore it as a color-wheel set, or sell it to someone, or a museum, who has the means to do it. Very cool find.