GE 14" Safety Question

[Jon1967us]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

It's series heaters so you have to short the heater pins or connect a dummy load resistor of correct value (which you compue the resistance and power of based on the current and voltage spec of the CRT heater on the CRT data sheet.

One option to service this set is to remove both the CRT and chassis from the cabinet then connect the 2 on the bench. If you have a long length of spare HV wire for the HV lead you could extend the HV and yoke leads to reach into the cabinet with the chassis outside the cabinet and use the sets own cabinet and CRT as a test jig for it.... probably good to put any floating HV connections in a glass jar or mug to prevent arcing.

Couldn’t you just back the crt into the chassis, with anode and yoke connected, when both are outside the cabinet? Just park the crt where it was minus the cabinet, or am I missing something?

[Electronic M]

That fuse story is a hoot...I was kind of expecting fire and or a transistor to splode given the biggest fuse I could find line...

Originally Posted by Jon1967us

Couldn’t you just back the crt into the chassis, with anode and yoke connected, when both are outside the cabinet? Just park the crt where it was minus the cabinet, or am I missing something?

Yes, that is what I described in the first sentence of the second paragraph...the rest of the paragraph was describing lead extensions for if you wanted to keep the CRT in the cabinet.

[alok]

This may have been mentioned already or you may be familiar with HOT CHASSIS ,depending on how AC plug is in power outlet. These type TV's ,GE and others had a bad reputation in the 50's /early 60's for chassis that were hot and that shock hazard transferred to the metal cabinet in some cases.
There were even deaths reported caused by this problem on GE's in particular ,the feds investigated along with UL.

Check and recheck when you put this set back together.
Be careful

Al