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Old 10-26-2017, 12:40 PM
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After you reverse the ion trap and reset it, you may find an improvement in the focus. Otherwise everything looks good . Some of the horizontal linearity issues and slight phase shift you mention seem to be inherently common with these Admiral sets. The last three Admiral sets I repaired had some of the same issues.
I just got an Admiral 12X12 this past weekend, won't get to it till next year.
Did your set come with a metal rear cover and metal underside shield ?
The rear cover that came with mine looks it may fit more than one model.
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Old 10-27-2017, 12:59 AM
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Did your set come with a metal rear cover and metal underside shield ?
The rear cover that came with mine looks it may fit more than one model.
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Yup, I has cover ^_^ but ty.

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Black to the base - it's on backwards.
Ah. Thanks. Well. It was like that, so not my fault. Actually now it makes sense - blue for electrons, black for the base.

I flipped it around and it seems to have made no difference in the clarity of the image. Perhaps I should readjust horizontal. However, I had to shove it all the way forward on the neck, touching the focus coil. Which I might move it back a bit so the focus can be adjusted, but hey on the plus side, the focus coil gets to be a lot more straight now.

Idk, how awful would it be to put it on backwards? I'm concerned that in the future if the focus coil adjuster gets bumped, it'll snap the crt neck, what with the magnet butting up against the coil.

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Old 10-27-2017, 11:55 AM
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Can always loosen it to the point where it won't spin or move easily, but will move with a little bit of force.
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Old 11-02-2017, 01:31 PM
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"Turning the brightness down improves the clarity of the image, but even with the lights off in the room, the image would be too dark (and have too poor a contrast) at a level of brightness that produces a clear enough image. On the other hand, with the brightness all the way up, though the image is blurry, the screen is pretty damn bright. So... the crt is good, I guess?"

Pretty good indication of a weak CRT... yes you can turn up the grid drive and get a fairly bright image but not good focus, as the "sweet spot" (center) of the cathode is depleted... when you turn up the drive, you are drawing more electrons from off center areas, this is not conducive to good focus. Hopefully, the cathode will improve as you run it longer, or perhaps try to re-activate by running the heater at increased voltage (like 7 to 8 volts) for a few hours.

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Old 11-02-2017, 10:15 PM
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Pretty good indication of a weak CRT...
Well... big surprise, right? I had it running the other day and it seemed better, but like I said, it really seems to get worse as the set warms up, but I'm not 100% sure about that. I'm still going to inspect the focus circuit anyway. Plus I still got that slight shadow, but maybe that's not related.
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Old 11-06-2017, 10:42 PM
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Ok. So.

I was thinking (yeah I know, that's my problem right there) if I could increase the voltage going through the focus coil it might focus the picture better. To do this, I used my decade box to put a resistor across the focus pot, and it worked. The picture was razor sharp. Though, come to think of it, I'm not entirely sure if the resistance I added increased or decreased the voltage through the coil. :/

I only had it on there for a minute max, but when I removed it, the picture was blurry as hell. I let the set cool off and it seems to be almost back to its normal level of blurriness.

Did I break something?

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Old 11-07-2017, 12:47 AM
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Things to consider: Current through the coil often matters more than voltage. Most decade boxes use half watt resistors. The average focus coil can handle most or all the B+ current through them so the focus pot often is/needs to be a 10-25 watt resistor to handle the power...If you put a half watt resistor big enough to significantly effect the control in parallel with it, then odds are that resistor is going to see several times it's rating and burn open......
Some time ago I found a sencore 'Big 20' which is a decade box made with 20 watt resistors...It is situations like this and power supply work where that box really shines.

Check your decade box is in spec on the setting(s) you used, and if the setting you were using is out of tolerance/open replace the one in the box, and get a 20W unit the same resistance to use in the TV.
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Old 11-07-2017, 01:10 AM
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Check your decade box is in spec on the setting(s) you used, and if the setting you were using is out of tolerance/open replace the one in the box, and get a 20W unit the same resistance to use in the TV.
lol my decade box uses wire wound resistors. idk what wattage but I'm certain they can handle it. Besides, does care about the box, I'm worried about my tv.
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Old 11-07-2017, 10:46 AM
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Just to nit pick. It's voltage across the coil and current through the coil. Anyway. you definitely do not want to burn out that focus coil. If B+ in the set is close to what the service info specifies, I'd look elsewhere for a solution.

For instance, the entire focus coil/yoke assembly can move back and forth on the chassis. There are two large screws down at the base that hold it to the chassis and there are slots in the support. It was designed so that you can loosen those crews and move it around. It might not be in the "sweet spot" for this particular CRT.
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Old 11-19-2017, 07:59 PM
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Alright I found the focus problem. I spent a good amount of time today going through all the voltage checks - and many of them (~25%) are WAY out of whack. So I sat back and did some thinking, and it occurred to me that I should just do what I originally wanted to do - investigate the focus circuit.

I disconnected the focus pot and big resistor that comes off of it. The resistor is in spec, but I found the pot was open from one end to the other. I took the pot off the chassis, and cracked it open and immediately could smell it was fried. It's still stinking up my room, my god, it's so pungent. If you look at the pic, you can actually see the bit of wire that broke and is now rubbing on the... turn-y thingy.

So there's that. Apparently, my adding a resistor across the pot was actually completing a previously open circuit, and that's why the focus would work properly then.

New thingy is on its way from fleabay already.

This just leaves me with the H linearity problem and hopefully this new pot will bring all the voltages in line, because some of them are really far off.
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Old 11-19-2017, 08:24 PM
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On wire wound pots (cough rheostats cough) you can often bridge the open and get the pot usable again.

In that rheostats case, you may need to add series resistance (given a lot of turns look bad) and reverse the ends of the pot so the wiper/rotor does not rest in the bad zone when focus is adjusted. Necessity (or cheapness and poor parts availability) is the mother of invention (but does it have Zappa too?).
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Old 11-19-2017, 09:23 PM
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On wire wound pots (cough rheostats cough) you can often bridge the open and get the pot usable again.
My first thought as well, but it's pretty screwed up. You can see a large section of turns aren't damaged, but the ring they're on is wrinkled inwards.
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Old 04-22-2019, 04:00 AM
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2 years later update!

This thing's been sitting on its side in the middle of my bedroom for the past 2 years. I've been struggling with this stupid horizontal linearity problem. The left side of the picture was stretched out, and no matter what I did, it just didn't work out. But today I decided to take a fresh look at it, I tried a bunch of things, poked a bunch of stuff, and it was a little frustrating, but then something clicked. I'd been focusing on the linearity area. Mind you, I've never repaired or adjusted a tv like this before. But I decided to start messing with other stuff related to horizontal.

Wouldn't you know it, the horizontal drive trimmer was the culprit this whole time. It was about 99% tight, and if I loosened it, it worsened the stretching on the left side. So I figured that if I add a capacitor in parallel, it should either make it worse or better, either way, that was the culprit. I dug up a 22pF disc cap, put it on, and it happened to be just about right. I could now adjust the H drive to get the picture almost 100% linear.

It's still not 100%, but you know, 99% is pretty good for a 70 year old tv. And I'm quite proud of myself. :3

I'm imagining a 1kv ceramic cap would be acceptable for that area? I was considering replacing the actual trimmer, but it still works, I think maybe it's simply drifted to a lower capacity? Idk. Also, there's a bit of a neck shadow in the lower right corner, but I've given up on that. Doesn't bother me much, anyhow. You can see the stretched out test pattern here.

Now onto another project, I'd like to add RCA inputs. Any good threads on the topic?
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Old 04-22-2019, 09:02 AM
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Old 04-22-2019, 09:06 AM
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Looks good. The drive should be in the grid circuit of the output so 1KV will work and give you a large safety margin.
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