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Old 07-12-2011, 08:49 PM
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I will have more to offer on this subject in about a week. I am in the final stages of completing the restoration of the Hallicrafters CTC4 clone.. On my first attempt to get it up and running, the convergence was so far off I couldn't do anything with it. I discovered that almost all the pots on the convergence board were way off on value. After about a month of scouring the country for parts, I have completely rebuilt the convergence board with all new pots.

I would suspect that if you cant get good dynamic convergence on a ctc4 you may want to check the values of EVERY pot on the convergence panel. Especially the dual concentric 100 ohm pots that stick out the side. These 100 ohm pots are all carbon comp and it is my impression that they were not very durable. I have now built a personal stock of 100 ohm dual concentric pots that are all wire wound. I have no idea why RCA used carbon comp in this application. Wire wound would have been a much better option.

IN the past I have found the following to be helpful in addition to what has already been said about convergence. First of all if you are doing a convergence on a newly replaced crt, make sure you have the convergence yoke in the correct position followed by the purity ring and the blue lateral magnet.

The next step is to make your purity adjustments to get good pure scren colors. If you have the static red, blue and green magnets on the convergence yoke way out purity will not be correctly achieved. So what I do is put a patern generator using cross hatch and make sure the three color images are super imposed in the center of the screen first. Then I pull all the magnets on the purity ring at the front of the crt all the way out. At that point I disable the blue and green guns and go for the best red purity I can achieve following the purity directions in the Sams instructions. AFter red purity is good, I check blue and green for any impurity and touch things up using the pruity magnets at the front of the crt.

AFter purity is as good as I can get it, I set the cross hatch patern so that the center of the screen is misconverged by about 1/16 inch by turning the static magnets on the convergence yoke so I can see each color line individually. At this point I start to use the dynamic convergence board controlls to attempt to make the lines all parallel and equidistant from each other. When I have the lines as good as I can get them, I go back to the convergence yoke and reconverge the center of the screen using the static convergence magnets and the blue lateral.

And as was said before, convergence is a repetative process that gets better on each successive pass.
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Old 07-15-2011, 09:51 PM
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Convergence adjustment is an iterative process. ALL the adjustments interact to some degree. Do static, then dynamic, then retouch static, and retouch dynamic. You will converge on the final solution (no pun intended).
On later sets (post CTC-5) the circuits were designed so that the dynamic would not upset the static too much. However, on the CTC-5 and earlier, if you read the instructions, they say do the dynamic first for parallel lines, then do the static, then iterate.

I also noted on mine that a little fine rotation of the convergence yoke plus sliding back and forward to find the position of maximum effect was helpful.

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Old 07-15-2011, 09:56 PM
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I guess what I am getting at is did the factory start out with everything centered up (I would assume so), or how about the sets that jr, got his hands on and set evethhing at max CW.
Don't know what they did on particular sets. I do know that much later factory procedures would often involve first setting control slugs to a nominal mechanical position. So I would assume that any set you got is close to correct unless someone just went in and "tightened" all those "screws."

If you look back at my experience with replacing a broken blue H dynamic slug, you will see that I really had to try the full range (which I was afraid to do at first). But if you receive it unbroken, I'd assume it's close to start.

Edit: the nominal factory mechanical starting position might very well NOT be centered - so if the service literature doesn't tell you, don't assume.
2nd Edit - on the CTC-5, the pots are tapped at 25% rotation, and that (or very close) turned out to be the correct setting for the 21FBP22 substitute tube. It could depend on how close the guns are aimed for center convergence without any DC.

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