just bought a Telematic Jig

[Aperna1985]

Hey guys, I recently picked up a CTC-16 and had it delivered to my storage unit for the time being. I wanted to bring the chassis home and work on it so I bought a telematic TV repair jig off ebay. I wanted to know a little about it, with shipping it cost me about $160 hopefully I didn't over pay. I don't have any instructions and it came with a few yokes. What do I need to hook it to my chassis? Also it looks home made the cabinet is a GE, is this typical?

Here is a link to the auction. Tomorrow I will clean it up and show you guys everything.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/32592070307...mis&media=COPY

[zeno]

You need the right yoke cable for the chassis, a roundy CRT adapter
a 4 wire roundy yoke harness.& a set-up book. That will do almost any
chassis with tubes.
You do not need convergence cables for the most part.


Zeno
LFOD !

[Aperna1985]

Here are some pictures. I'm still wondering if it is partially homemade, the cabinet looks like it was a Conar color TV at one point. I only have adapters for filco and zenith. Is there a way to make these adapters is there anything special in them? I'd like to see if I could make one myself. Also the yoke adapter cable that comes out of the front, has two wires torn off one is a red wire that looks to go to the frame of the picture tube, the other wire is light blue and goes back to a jumper that plugs into the Yoke on the test jig. They're ripped off the plug does anyone know where they would solder to? It's tricky to post pictures so I'm going to put them on my Google Drive and share links.

Here's the folder. https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...geQRClzsvbEm0r

[zeno]

I think you should track down the manual.
Jigs are great & for many yrs I was the shop jig man. But most TV shops
had cheap owners that would mouse things instead of fixing them
right. Should be easy to find the book, Telematics were common. Add the RCA
yoke cables & you can do most sets.
Jigs are for major problems. The pix is there but not so great.
Good enuf to fix most problems or rebuilding a chassis that cant be done right
on the road.

BTW For convergence some sets put the vert out cathode cap & resistor on
the conv panel ( Admiral, Maggy, & others ) The vert lin will pull up at
the bottom. Just hang in near values & skip the cable.

Zeno

[Doug]

I remember my dad's telematic
The cabinet was metal, maybe dark gray.
Only thing I have from that somewhere is all the adapters
I kept my Sylvania ck3000 i think the model.
Never used it in 25 yrs

[Aperna1985]

I see alot of yoke cables but they have part numbers not listed in my 1979 catalog.

[Electronic M]

It's possible to make your own yoke adapters out of old octal sockets wire and an octal base or spade terminals. I've got a different RCA badged telematic that only officially supported the CTC-4 and newer and I reverse engineered an adapter I had to figure out yoke pinout and made my own adapter for a CTC-2B.

[Aperna1985]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

It's possible to make your own yoke adapters out of old octal sockets wire and an octal base or spade terminals. I've got a different RCA badged telematic that only officially supported the CTC-4 and newer and I reverse engineered an adapter I had to figure out yoke pinout and made my own adapter for a CTC-2B.

If I can get the yoke pin outs do you think you could help figure it out?

[Electronic M]

I don't know if your jig uses the same pin out as mine. If you have adapters you know are for your jig and can identify which TV they are meant for then you can pull the Sam's for that TV and figure out the jigs pinout by reverse engineering an adapter you have......This is basically what I did for mine. I looked at all the yoke adapters that came with mine (most were for solid state crap that I wouldn't touch with a 10' pole) until I found one I recognized as 60s-70s Zenith and reverse engineered that to figure out the jig pinout.

[Tim]

search this site for telematic. There have been discussions in the past about adapters and usage.

[Doug]

In the ad it had an extra yoke..was that common
For telematic to have 2 yokes

[Aperna1985]

Originally Posted by Tim

search this site for telematic. There have been discussions in the past about adapters and usage.

For what ever reason I can't search on this site. Whenever I click search and then try to type something it automatically closes.

[Aperna1985]

Originally Posted by Doug

In the ad it had an extra yoke..was that common
For telematic to have 2 yokes

I got a second yoke with it, I'm not sure if it's for it or not.

Here is a picture

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tWN...w?usp=drivesdk

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Aperna1985

For what ever reason I can't search on this site. Whenever I click search and then try to type something it automatically closes.

Open the search link in a new browser tab...It unlocks a bunch of hidden filters and features of search.

[Doug]

The way I do it,don't put anything in search box just click search a the advance box opens up