Hi AK'er, thank you for your numerous comments and acknowledgments.
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Originally Posted by andy
You don't see many old professional monitors. Most seem to be used heavily and then scrapped.
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This monitor belonged to the technical university here in Brunswick, and it was property of the government. I think that they didn't run this monitor very often at the university. There is not much dust in it, and the picture tube seems still very strong. I will test it with the crt meter today.
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Originally Posted by bgadow
Outstanding! Isn't it a joy to work on something that is built this well?
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This is my first professional monitor I had on the bench. I am still impressed about this elaborated and servicefriendly circuits. This professional technology shows what is really possible. The commercial sets I have seen before are a compromise between quality and costs. When I find time in the next weeks I will write a documentation about it for the web with an English translation.
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Originally Posted by Sandy G
That is a GREAT picture ! Excellent work ! You REALLY have something to be proud of- Between that & yr CTC-5, I'd say you have one of the finest TV collections in Germany...What OTHER goodies do you have?-Sandy G.
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Look at this page
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold/archiv/TV/tv.htm
and click "Start". All listed sets with an an asterisk are part of my collection. But I have reached a limit, there is no more space in the house, and in summer we get our third child. I have to put some tv sets on the attic of my parents and will keep here only the most interesting sets.
P.S.: I have just telephoned with the engineer, who created the deflection units of this monitor. He told me, that 1500 monitors were built in 1965-1970. Each of them costs 18,000.00 Deutschmarks (for example, the Volkswagen 1300, a car, costs 5,150.00 Deutschmarks in these days). I have an exemplar with an NTSC module.
These monitors were exported in the whole world. (The SECAM models should reproduce better SECAM than the French aequivalents ;-)
Yesterday he saw some monitors of them still working in a Iranian nuclear power station in the evening news. I found a video of it still on the web and made a screenshot:
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...MC47inIran.JPG
The black-designed monitors have the SECAM module inside. Incredible, hybrid tube-transistorized monitors are still in use today.
