Tech-Master NIB TV Kit #5516

[Crist Rigott]

I put the base back on before I went to bed last night. I used the same sensor safe silicone. I then soldered the wires to the pins. Cleaned up the pins and we are ready to go.

I hooked the CRT back up to the TV and success!

[Crist Rigott]

I added a 10 ohm 25W resistor to the filament string. The filament string is for 115vac and my wall outlets provide 124vac. I thought that the 124vac would be a bit too much for the filament string, hence the resistor. The filament string is now at 117vac using my wall outlet. I used such a big resistor because I had one on hand and also I like to way oversize these things.

[dieseljeep]

It looks like clearly defined scan lines now.
Are you running the chassis with the original B+ configuration, with just the 25DN6 upgrade?
Great job on the CRT lead wires. Those CRT's don't grow on trees!

[Crist Rigott]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

It looks like clearly defined scan lines now.
Are you running the chassis with the original B+ configuration, with just the 25DN6 upgrade?
Great job on the CRT lead wires. Those CRT's don't grow on trees!

Not quite. Originally I had a 10 ohm 50W resistor (R69) in place of the 5 ohm 5W resistor that came with the kit. I used a 1N4007 instead of the selenium rectifier so I had to go up in resistance from the 5 ohms. Using my iso transformer and variac the 10 ohms gave me about 125 to 128V for the 130V bus (B+). Then I remembered that I'll be powering the TV using the wall outlets of 124vac. I had to go up to 15 ohms to get about 132V B+ voltage.

Thanks.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Crist Rigott

Not quite. Originally I had a 10 ohm 50W resistor (R69) in place of the 5 ohm 5W resistor that came with the kit. I used a 1N4007 instead of the selenium rectifier so I had to go up in resistance from the 5 ohms. Using my iso transformer and variac the 10 ohms gave me about 125 to 128V for the 130V bus (B+). Then I remembered that I'll be powering the TV using the wall outlets of 124vac. I had to go up to 15 ohms to get about 132V B+ voltage.

Thanks.

Your line voltage is quite high! Ours is usually around 121 volts. The distribution transformer is on the lot next to me. A newer area, 15 years old. I imagine, the voltage is that high to avoid brown-outs in the summer time when everyone has their AC on. Your warm season is a lot longer than ours.
It's great to see that everything is working out fine. A lot of effort was put in and the results show it!

[Findm-Keepm]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

Your line voltage is quite high!

124V is still within limits of ANSI C84.1.....127V max. I'm at 127V...