Sylvania Halo-vision question

[Steve D.]

Guess I was right on my previous post. Here is a link to a 1960 Sylvania ad that includes the "Halo-Light" feature: Google Image Result for http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L8BTRutV0u...Tv+Ad+1960.jpg
Address:http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...Disch:1&itbs=1

-Steve D.

[GeorgeJetson]

Originally Posted by gary k.

Here is a pic of my den with one of my Halolights. I have 4 of them that I have restored. Two are blonde like this set (23" - identical), one is similar but a little older with a darker cabinet and the last one has a similar protruding halolight but with a base that has simulated drawers. Got that from a VK member here about 5 years ago.


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WOW!
Gary,thanks for sharing that great photo!
The tv and your furnishings are truly amazing!
Nice to know there are other people stuck in the 50's and 60's too!

What year is that Halo-Light? Are your three others just as modernistic looking?
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[GeorgeJetson]

Originally Posted by Steve D.

Guess I was right on my previous post. Here is a link to a 1960 Sylvania ad that includes the "Halo-Light" feature: Google Image Result for http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_L8BTRutV0u...Tv+Ad+1960.jpg
Address:http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...Disch:1&itbs=1

-Steve D.

Interesting!
So Sylvania stuck with the Halo-light for many years.
Why would they do that if people were complaining and having the lights disconnected?

[bgadow]

I recently parted out a Halolite console that was from 1962, if not 63. That one wasn't real attractive. I saved the tube and power supply (works), you could easily connect this seperate from the chassis. I have another one, similiar to the what is pictured in this thread. The light works fine but I haven't tackled the chassis yet. I seem to recall that it has an actual dimmer switch.

By the time these sets were being made, the TV market was really being saturated and you needed a good gimmick. As an old salesman's pin I have declares, "only Sylvania has Halo Lite". Really cool pin, and really cool gimmick!

[radiocraze]

I just found in my storage, a NOS Neon tube for the Sylvania "Halo-Light" or Halo-Vision.

[Ray Sieracki]

Great picture, real nice style. I hope to find one like this someday, or maybe a clean table model.

[Ray Sieracki]

Originally Posted by gary k.

Here is a pic of my den with one of my Halolights. I have 4 of them that I have restored. Two are blonde like this set (23" - identical), one is similar but a little older with a darker cabinet and the last one has a similar protruding halolight but with a base that has simulated drawers. Got that from a VK member here about 5 years ago.


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Great picture, I do not have one, but will look for one now. Your set has a clean modern look to it. Thanks for the picture. Perphap's there be a halolight or two at the ETF convention this year.

[GeorgeJetson]

Where is the Etf convention?
How large is the swap meet section?

[bgadow]

Columbus, OH. I wouldn't call the swapmeet a huge affair but then, I don't know where else you would find that many TV-only vendors. Here is a page about the last convention:
http://www.earlytelevision.org/2010_convention.html

[GeorgeJetson]

Thanks Bryan,have you been there before or to the museum?

[bgadow]

I went to the convention in 2005, and would like to get back out there again someday. The museum is worth the trip. I especially liked the prewar sets and the first-generation color models. If you go to the ETF convention you will find yourself rubbing elbows with the foremost experts in the old TV hobby. I don't do well in that situation myself and so spent most of my time in a corner talking with a couple of the more down-to-earth VK'ers or browsing the museum.

[Tubejunke]

Gosh I hate reading about sets that I remember busting up 25 or more years ago! I scrounged a Halo-light console from our high school electronics class where we had over half of a room full of donated TVs of which I would say a third were 50's sets! There was even a junky Predicta in our storage room that I would tinker with. The Sylvania was probably a good set, but between my lack of skills at the time and my dad always raising hell about a house full of "junk", I used to periodically bust a few sets up to make him happy and make room for more. I still battle the constant need for space to justify bringing home another set! I never could find a taker for my super clean 58 Space Command 24" so I decided to just keep it around till I can take the chassis to the college and break out a Huntington Tracker on the ceramic disc caps. Actually I will take the time to look at ALL caps with the expensive equipment that enables me to look at a wave form of sorts called a "footprint" that tests components IN CIRCUIT! YES! If there is an overlooked bad component, I should be able to sniff it out. Here at home I don't have a scope or a jig to support the big crt while the set is powered up for voltage checks, nor do I have a signal generator to go that route. I am anxious to see how the new equipment serves me on this.

[GeorgeJetson]

Originally Posted by bgadow

I went to the convention in 2005, and would like to get back out there again someday. The museum is worth the trip. I especially liked the prewar sets and the first-generation color models. If you go to the ETF convention you will find yourself rubbing elbows with the foremost experts in the old TV hobby. I don't do well in that situation myself and so spent most of my time in a corner talking with a couple of the more down-to-earth VK'ers or browsing the museum.

Bryan,
I don't blame you,I'm intimidated by the electronic knowledge of some of the members on this site,so I just look at the pictures!
That museum sounds very cool!,too bad it's so far away from me.
Does the museum have Predictas and fiberglass tvs too?
How about the 1957 Teleavia?,I've always wanted to see one of those in real life,I would imagine they are quite scarce.

[Tubejunke]

Originally Posted by Tubejunke

I decided to just keep it around till I can take the chassis to the college and break out a Huntington Tracker on the ceramic disc caps. Actually, I will take the time to look at ALL caps with this expensive equipment that enables me to look at a wave form of sorts called a "footprint" that tests components IN CIRCUIT!

I want to correct my mistake in the name of this device. It is a Huntron Tracker. Also, today I found out that it is not necessarily as big of a magic troubleshooting tool as I initially thought. I found out that the expected "footprints" are atered by components in parallel when it comes to resistors, capacitors, inductors etc. So, unless there is some hidden secret in the manual it is still snip-a-lead! I think this device is more suited to semiconductor devices.

[Kevin Kuehn]

Here's a cool looking Halo lurking in WI. Looks like blond metal cabinet with black trim. I've been eyeing it for a couple weeks now. Someone should come get it so I can focus on other things

Kevin

No affiliation.

http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/atq/2204549289.html