Here’s the other TV that was picked up from the local water point having been put of to be recycled. This one is much newer than the Thorn TV, a 10″ colour version from Ferguson.
The colour CRT used is an RCA branded one, 27GDC85X.
Like the other TV, this one is dual voltage input, mains 240v & 12v battery. This TV is a factory conversion of a standard 240v AC chassis though.
The 12v power first goes into this board, which looked suspiciously like an inverter. Measuring on the output pins confirmed I was right, this addon board generates a 330v DC supply under a load, but it’s not regulated at all, under no load the output voltage shoots up to nearly 600v!
I’ve not seen one of these labels on a TV for many years, when back in the very old TV sets the steel chassis would be used to supply power to parts of the circuitry, to save on copper. Although it doesn’t have a metal chassis to actually become live, so I’m not sure why it’s here.
The main PCB is much more integrated in this newer TV, from the mid 90’s, everything is pretty much taken care of by silicon by this point.
This Toshiba µC takes care of channel switching & displaying information on the CRT. The tuner in this TV is electronically controlled.
The video signal is handled by this Mitsubishi IC, which is a PAL Signal Processor, this does Video IF, Audio IF, Chroma, & generates the deflection oscillators & waveforms to drive the yoke.
There are some adjustments on the CRT neck board for RGB drive levels & cutoff levels. This board also had the final video amplifiers onboard, which drive the CRT cathodes.
I found one and upcycled it.It doesn’t have any RCAinputs.Having been electronically controlled, can I mount an input for video at least ?
Compoozite input I mean.Thanks in advance
Hi Cristian,
I didn’t do much with this particular TV to graft in a composite signal, but if you grab a datasheet for the Mitsubishi M52038SP, you may be able to get enough information from there to connect a signal in. In this TV that IC does all the video processing from the tuner, so if there is accessible composite signals for you to inject into, that’s where they’ll be.
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