RCA CTC-16XL Suggestions/Tips

[zeno]

Originally Posted by old_coot88

Not to be picayunish but the colorburst tube is not the oscillator. The burst tube supplies the synchronizing signal for the osc.

And they are timed by a horz pulse to grab & amp the 8 burst
signals on the back porch.

73 Zeno
LFOD !

[old_coot88]

Originally Posted by zeno

And they are timed by a horz pulse to grab & amp the 8 burst
signals on the back porch.

73 Zeno
LFOD !

..And then the osc. free-runs during the whole scan period (one scan line) before the next synchronizing "burst".