TV Parts

No, this is not a reference to Mike Nesmith



Way back when, TV picture tubes were subject to "ion burn", caused by ions striking the phosphor on the screen, causing a burn pattern to appear. Due to the shape of the tube, the burn pattern would appear roughly similar to the Mason's symbol (an inverted "V").

To prevent this, the electron gun was tilted so that the ions would strike the inside of the CRT neck, and scatter harmlessly. This caused the electron beam to veer off course also, but the electron beam is lighter, and a magnet could get the electon beam re-centered without affecting the relatively heavier ion beam.

From left to right are an adjustable ion trap (somewhat rare), a standard trap, a 4 pole trap (rare), and a 4 pole electromagnetic trap (very rare).

Adjustment of the trap was simple - move it around until the picture is at it's brightest.



This is the high voltage oscillator coil used in just about every 7 inch electrostatic TV ever made.

The primary coil is on the bottom, with the orange rectifier filament winding on the outside. The primary would be driven by a 6V6, 25L6 or even a 6C4 tube. The wire ring around the rectifier provided feedback to the driver tube to keep it oscillating.

The secondary coils are the upper two packs (sometimes called pi's), which step the voltage up to 6KV.

The rectifier filament was powered from the 2 turns of orange wire. It was very dangerous to measure the filament voltage, so it was always recommended to compare the brightness of the rectifier filament to the brightness of another tube which was heated with a flashlight battery. Good idea.



These oscillator coils are probably good for 20KV, and they are usually driven by a much larger tube, such as the 807.

This is the only air-core flyback I have ever seen. It came out of a 14 inch Capehart-Farnsworth TV set. I believe that the yoke was direct-drive because there were only three connections.

I later used this transformer in another HV oscillator project, which can be seen in another photo later on. The white wire on the right was the feedback to the oscillator tube, a 6V6 in this case.




Westinghouse came out with a new idea in the late 50's - make the picture tube bezel out of translucent white plastic, and light it up from the back to make the picture look bigger. They called it the Halo Light.

These are the fluorescent tubes which provide the light. They are fed about 1200V from a transformer.


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