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Heathkit IO-101 Vectorscope/Pattern Generator Insanity .
A nice man gave me this unit a couple weeks back and it's about driving me crazy. I can't for the life of me figure out what's wrong with the composite video signal that's causing the wave at the top of the picture. I have the manual and all the video waveforms look good on my scope. It shows nearly the same symptom on both vintage and modern TV's, and regardless of whether it's connected to the tuner or composite video in on the newer set. This uses the same pattern generator circuit as in the Heath stand alone IG-28. If you fast forward about 11 minutes into this youtube video you'll see this fellows generator exhibits very nearly the same behavior as mine. In fact when I hooked my Admiral 20Z1 chassis up to mine it looks nearly identical to his. For some reason the vertical bars bend to the left on the Admiral. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G1_2XyXfFs
Last edited by Kevin Kuehn; 10-21-2017 at 08:47 PM. |
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I've got the same unit. Reseat the ICs and maybe clean their sockets. Heath socketed all their ICs back then and the connections turn to crap with age. I've had two of the generator only variant of this and one was near dead till I re-seated the ICs....I had a heath scope of this vintage as my first...It had so many intermittents from those sockets that I gave up and sold it many years ago. The gens tend to be more stable.
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Tom,
I did replace those funky individual pin IC sockets with some decent AMP sockets. I've verified all the divide by flip flops and gates are doing their math correctly. This thing uses the ancient Motorola MC700P series RTL family IC's. I'll try to post some scope screen shots of the composite and maybe someone sharper than I will notice something I'm overlooking. |
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Here are pictures of the pattern composite wave forms. Vertical scope input is .5 volts per division.
Last edited by Kevin Kuehn; 10-21-2017 at 08:52 PM. |
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I was staring at my scope screen pictures and it finally dawned on me that the vertical sync pulse was about 1500 uS long. Duh! So I tried adjusting the vertical blanking pot and it has zero effect on the width of the sync pulse.
Last edited by Kevin Kuehn; 10-21-2017 at 08:53 PM. |
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That was it. The vertical sync pulse was so long it was blanking too far into the beginning of next frame. All it needed was a 1.5k resistor from ground to the vert sync input of the sync mixer gate, so now the vertical blanking width control works as expected. The way it was, the gate input couldn't recognize the change in pulse width(RC differentiator) because it had no DC reference. Apparently that was an inherent design flaw. Now I have to wonder if Heathkit at some point implemented a fix for that small oversight.
Last edited by Kevin Kuehn; 10-21-2017 at 08:55 PM. |
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