robert1
07-18-2010, 09:40 PM
Hi All
a friend of mine recently gave me a RCA 21 inch console that was in near new condition. it was his fathers set & it was stored in a dry basement since the mid-seventies. his dad said that the set quit working just before he moved it to the basement. now, it is over here & i am working on it. what i found when i pulled the back was the H.O tube has gone to air & that there was a crack in the glass just above the base. i replaced the tube with a N.O.S 6DQ6, checked the 6CG7 horizontal osc tube to make sure that it was ok, and powered it up. i have no high voltage, the horizontal frequency is too low (i can hear the high frequency), & the horizontal hold control does not change the frequency at all.
however, after five miniutes of leaving it on, the H.O. tube does not show any signs of redplating & it does not get too hot too fast.
i pulled the chassis, gave a visual look at all of the components around the horizontal output & damper tube & did not find any burned resistors. i took my V.T.V.M & checked the resistors in the grid drive circuit of the 6DQ6 & found them to be ok. i did a power-up & checked the voltage on the control grid of the 6DQ6 & it was running at negative 15vdc.
i removed the plate cap off of the 6DQ6 & checked the B+ voltage, which was running at 235 VDC.
i do not have a schematic for this chassis & i was wondering if someone here might tell me at least what the proper voltages are if they have the service information.
thanx
a friend of mine recently gave me a RCA 21 inch console that was in near new condition. it was his fathers set & it was stored in a dry basement since the mid-seventies. his dad said that the set quit working just before he moved it to the basement. now, it is over here & i am working on it. what i found when i pulled the back was the H.O tube has gone to air & that there was a crack in the glass just above the base. i replaced the tube with a N.O.S 6DQ6, checked the 6CG7 horizontal osc tube to make sure that it was ok, and powered it up. i have no high voltage, the horizontal frequency is too low (i can hear the high frequency), & the horizontal hold control does not change the frequency at all.
however, after five miniutes of leaving it on, the H.O. tube does not show any signs of redplating & it does not get too hot too fast.
i pulled the chassis, gave a visual look at all of the components around the horizontal output & damper tube & did not find any burned resistors. i took my V.T.V.M & checked the resistors in the grid drive circuit of the 6DQ6 & found them to be ok. i did a power-up & checked the voltage on the control grid of the 6DQ6 & it was running at negative 15vdc.
i removed the plate cap off of the 6DQ6 & checked the B+ voltage, which was running at 235 VDC.
i do not have a schematic for this chassis & i was wondering if someone here might tell me at least what the proper voltages are if they have the service information.
thanx