working on a Conrac CYB.

[kf4rca]

Here are some scans from a CYB rectangular book.

At one time these were the standard in TV stations across America.

[Kevin Kuehn]

That thing stacked on top those VCR's and TV stand is hilarious.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn

That thing stacked on top those VCR's and TV stand is hilarious.

Yeah I didn't want to do it but dad was in Kansas on business till yesterday and I can only lift it safely dismantled or with help... The idea was to throw it together in a couple hours and roll it over to my Packard Bell console then slide it on top...not for it to sit on that ramshackle assemblage for 2 days.... that it hasn't collapsed or tipped over yet (as far as I know/knock on wood) Impresses me. All and all it is a pretty weird day, there is a Halloween blizzard (I expect to see kids in Santa costumes), I got to work last despite living closest, and my Conrac has stayed nearly 2 days on a stand I wasn't confident would last 2 hours...

I'm pretty sure it is a CYB... I'll double check when I get home this afternoon. I bought that sign partly because it was dirt cheap (tube for bottom border of the ribbon is busted), partly because I wanted to test a pair of RADIO neon tubes from a TV repair shop I bought... Never had any Michelob before...Is it good?

The lytics probably need a change soon since there is a tiny bit of horizontal breathing... I'm probably going to put that off for now.

Convergence and other adjustments are fairly dialed in now and this is probably the best performing roundscreen set I've ever seen (I forget how it compares to my TM21) running Dr.NO on my JVC pro SVHS deck the picture looks better than DVD!

[kf4rca]

I'd check those 6080 regulator tubes first. Then check to make sure your 395V and 250V are correct. Adjust via P700 if not.
I like Coors here but I know that in Wisconsin you've got to have some serious antifreeze.
The last station I worked at always had beer in the fridge at the transmitter building. It was itemized as, you guessed it, antifreeze.

[Kevin Kuehn]

Originally Posted by kf4rca

I'd check those 6080 regulator tubes first. Then check to make sure your 395V and 250V are correct. Adjust via P700 if not.
I like Coors here but I know that in Wisconsin you've got to have some serious antifreeze.
The last station I worked at always had beer in the fridge at the transmitter building. It was itemized as, you guessed it, antifreeze.

Alcohol slows down your metabolism so you can freeze less painfully.

[Electronic M]

Last night's post that I never hit send on:

Today on stupid mistakes facilitated by bad design practice: mixing up yoke leads. The yoke is marked for red and blue horizontal leads and yellow and yellow with black stripe for the vertical....so what colors of wire did Conrac use?...Why red and grey for the horizontal and yellow and brown for the vertical (of course)....so what did I do in the face of this soo easy an engineer could get it wrong color coding...I swapped the brown and grey and thusly pissed off the horizontal section... reverting to the correct hook up it fixed it.

Originally Posted by kf4rca

Here are some scans from a CYB rectangular book.

At one time these were the standard in TV stations across America.

Interesting that they made a rectangular version.