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The neat thing about the Zenith remote was that if we didn't have one handy at the shop we would vigorously jiggle a key ring. If the set responded in any way we knew the remote was working. Phil |
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they have a little bellows inside, and a couple whisles pushing down the button compresses the bellows and opens up a whisle. The down side is the bellows can get old and crack, and the seal of the whistle to the mech can leak.
I have one on a B&W maggie, works well. the remote unit had a shorted transistor, but it was easy to fix, a few low volt caps. The volume is just a voltage divider on a rotoray switch, the on/off on mine was tied to the tuner, it would go off when in the un used UHF. On some combos its a real challange just to understand how to turn them on and off. |
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As Dave described, you push the button down and a puff of air comes out the front, I assume with a high-pitch sound component that activates one of two tuned circuits in the TV with relays to the tuner and power switch (and volume, somehow?). What is strange is that both buttons go down most of the way when you push either one, but I guess the correct one goes enough further to activate its air puff and not the other one.
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the channel is just a relay that pulses the motor on the tuner (one direction only), the volume is a solenoid activated by a relay, it pulls a ratchet that spins the rotory switch on which is the beforementioned voltaged divider network of resistors, IIRC 4 (mute low med high). All this is mounted on the receiver unit, the audio from the TV plugs into the receiver. there is a switch that turns on the power to the unit (has its own PS on the receiver) and routes the audio to the rotoray switch. If the remote switch is in the off posistion the audio bypasses the receiver and goes directly to the amp.
the main volume control still works, like a master volume if the remote is active, even with only 4 levels it allows tayloring the output to personalize the low/med/high. When the remote is off its just like any other volume control. |
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Thank you for that clear description of how this type of remote control system works. On my set, there is a spot on the back panel where the remote control on/off switch is labeled, but the switch itself is not there (nor is there a mounting hole). This set does have two other switches on the back: A "fast warm up" on/off switch (that was off when I got the set, probably helped the CRT live longer), and a "sepia tone" on/off switch (that would change the color temperature, I am guessing?).
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thats the same chassis as my combo, yes it should have a top on the fly cage, but I doubt its any thing to work about.
the chorma board will need some new caps .01 on the grid of the 6GU7, I guarntee the one that sits between the tube and the power resistor is weak, the other two are prob ok. Will it work if weak, yes, did I change mine, yes. did I need to, yes but thats more a personality defect than a color TV defect there is prob a couple .001 1kv caps that should be replaced, the one on the vert out transformer was bad on mine, the one the audio out transformer was not, replaced them both. I also like to replace the .1 on the grid of the video tube and the .001 that couples the horz osc to the horz out, just for good insurance againt leakage. This is the general same thing I did on my other RCT sets of that era. Check those wires on the top of the chorma board (think there are two behind the 6GU7's goes to a couple power resistors jumpers on the board). I have had several that were corroded and break, make is look like the screen drives were turn up on one color when this happens). I just use some tweezers and gently tug on them, if they are corroded they will snap right off, if they dont, then you are prob ok, as they dont get moved at all. besides those coulpe 1kv tube caps I think the only other paper caps were the across the line cap at the power receptical and the black beauty that is used on the horz osc coil (mounted vertical). I replaced the accross the line with an X2 and left the horz osc coil alone after it tested perfect (I did not have a precison cap for that value handy). all the normal gound stakes should be looked over and take a close look a the bottom of the video amp tube, it gets hot and the solder can look crystalized. I reflowed some questionalble looking joints. |
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Dave, I appreciate all the details of needed parts and things to check. I am looking forward to getting this set working, so I'd better get moving with my other projects too!
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Chris, Find a book titled "Magnavox Volume 1 - Color TV Service Manual" by Stan Prentiss, published in 1974 by TAB Books (out of print). This had factory schematics, functional circuit descriptions, service and alignment procedures plus case histories for trouble shooting. These books were very helpful and were published for most of the manufacturers.
see this long link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...=olp_tab_used?ie=UTF8&coliid=&me=&qid=&sr=&seller=&colid=&condit ion=used Good luck, that is a unique cabinet style from one of the best in TV-furniture. Magnavox of this vintage is usually an easy fix. drh4683 has a very good video on Utube to remove the cataracts from that CRT. Dave 63 Last edited by DavGoodlin; 09-02-2011 at 07:36 AM. Reason: link trouble |
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Magnavox's "TAC" (Total Automatic Color), Zenith's "Color Sentry", et al. were other automatic systems designed into TVs of these makes for the same reasons, although many times the picture looks terrible with these automatic controls activated; many times it is possible to get a much better picture by adjusting the manual color and tint controls until the flesh tones are correct, although again many viewers did not want to be bothered with those controls. The reason the picture is often better with the automatic controls disabled is that these systems, which were often little more than push button switches that activated preset controls, were probably adjusted at the factory using color bars from a generator rather than actual air signals.
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What a beauty...and a RE phosphor tube to boot!
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OK, I see there are a couple on Amazon now too. Thanks for the tips.
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Thanks for the notes. I have a book that may be "Color TV Servicing Simplified-Volume 3" (by Milton Kiver?), and it describes Magnavox as having one of the first color-"correction" circuits intended to push colors toward skin tones; this book is from the rectangular-CRT era, and I also remember reading about those one-button color systems in the early 1970s (way before I ever had a color TV) and how they made things usually worse rather than better.
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RE in the prefix was for RARE EARTH.
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