Panasonic CT-26

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Originally Posted by Dave A

Cleaning storage today and found a 1971/72 Panasonic CT-26 Pana Color. 13" or so delta gun. 10 tube hybrid. No idea where I got it. Home and powered up minus Variac. It slowly got to to speed and was trying to work with massive dirty controls. CRT looked strong. Tubes seem to be original. Then I moved it and the not connected dipole antenna wires brushed the cable balun. Big 110v spark and white smoke from inside below the CRT and breaker pop. Hot chassis. Rats.

Looked inside and nothing burned and the line fuse was ok. My power strip saved it. Cleaned while open and powered again. It came back up with a minor AC hum line that was an odd few staggered lines of the scan. 4-5 lines at most. Played with the magnets and got perfect convergence. Grey scale great. Went behind to look for focus control and never found it. When I got back to the front the hum was gone. Did it reform itself? Still need to find the focus to finish. A bit soft. The AFC is wonky sometimes working fine and then garbage. Works fine with AFC off.

Anyone know where the focus is? Don't see any focus jumpers either. The web is no help with this set. Swamped with another CT-26xxxx flat panel.

I have one that's probably close. I think mine is an 11 inch. I picked it up at a thrift shop, I thought it was a solid state, until I plugged it in and I seen the tubes lighting up. I bought because it was a hybrid.
I think the CRT is a low focus voltage one. The picture looks good but I want to see the clearly defined scan lines. A fetish with me.