The Thylacine higher line rate monitor

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The Thylacine higher line rate monitor

Postby Harry Dalek » Thu Aug 03, 2017 7:25 pm

I have named this Monitor Build the Thylacine big brother to the Devil as the Tasmanian devil was to its bigger competitor the Tasmanian Tiger The Thylacine so in this case line rates touch under or over 100 lines .....well thats the plan ... :shock: any way i have the Devil working so just need a higher line rate monitor for the flying spot scanner camera build no use having it and no way to view it .
The problem with the Devil as Steve pointed out for any higher line rate is raster spot spot size and over lapping lines with the smaller electrostatic tube which i did notice on the 120 line tests .
So this is where i am at
I finished off the variable EHT and another inverter for the focus positive and working on the first sawtooth oscillator it will pretty much work off a dual 12 volt supply ,one circuit at a time and i know what works so using circuits i have used before here /
Everything working so far which is good ,i will fire it up again when i have at least a deflection amplifier working should be around the weekend if not both.
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Re: The Thylacine higher line rate monitor

Postby Harry Dalek » Sun Aug 06, 2017 11:17 pm

I was ready to test the circuits for a raster today but it looks as if i stuffed up the positioning of the EHT module to close to its metal case and i didn't earth that ...not a good idea :roll:
least i took some photos of the saw tooth oscillator working before they got zapped i have got the framing one going again and just need to fix the line oscillator .
My plan today was to adjust the line frequency to 3khz and frame to 25 hz 120 line .
But back to fixing this first and giving it another go.
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Re: The Thylacine higher line rate monitor

Postby Harry Dalek » Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:26 pm

Been working on the raster for this tube ... so far only getting part of the screen thats ok for now .

Mainly trying to work out the old problem of lines close to each other at the beginning of the scan and wider towards the end ,i have feed back and the frame deflection amplifier is not oscillating tried a low ohm resistors across the deflection coils that helped a little .

I am pretty much using the same circuit as i used for the Deep image Slow scan tv apart from a few changes to the circuit values around the line and frame sawtooth oscillators adjusted in this case 1.4khz and 25 hz or there abouts for now and the Tr19 20 base capacitor area on both deflection amplifiers to stop oscillation ...i found so far no need for one on the frame deflection amplifier no oscillation clean sawtooth ,i adjusted one for the best results on the line deflection amplifier .
Seems to make no difference to the frame deflection line closeness start or end of the frame till i get the the early uf capacitor valves then it drops the height to dramatically ....may be i have not found an in between valve yet .
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Re: The Thylacine higher line rate monitor

Postby Steve Anderson » Sat Aug 12, 2017 2:43 am

Harry, how are you triggering the horizontal oscillator? Are you using the suggested BRY39? I assume you were not able to get the 1.3V VDR?

It looks like severe non-linearity in the horizontal oscillator and/or the output stage. The AD series of transistors were also germanium not silicon.

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Re: The Thylacine higher line rate monitor

Postby Klaas Robers » Sat Aug 12, 2017 6:19 am

And is the scanning not scanning up? From the bottom to the top? In most cases the lines are wide in the beginning of the scan and close at the end of the scan. This is then because the input saw tooth is not a linear sawtooth but a exponential saw tooth.

Look first at the wave form on the point where "1.7 volt" is indicated. The saw tooth there should be very linear. If not: as always, rubbish in - rubbish out.
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Re: The Thylacine higher line rate monitor

Postby Harry Dalek » Sat Aug 12, 2017 9:01 am

Steve Anderson wrote:Harry, how are you triggering the horizontal oscillator? Are you using the suggested BRY39? I assume you were not able to get the 1.3V VDR?

It looks like severe non-linearity in the horizontal oscillator and/or the output stage. The AD series of transistors were also germanium not silicon.

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BTW the 74HC4040 ics turned up i just need the HC 4046 and i can test the flying spot sawtooth circuits.

I am using a replacement SCR C203B PRX same one i used in the Deep image SSTV heres the circuit i used with part changes for the SSTV vertical ...
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Part changes The VDR is replaced with 2 diodes ,the circuit change here on that was not my idea but some one who pasted on the changes 30 years ago to me ,the saw tooth oscillators seems to work .i will have another look how clean the sawtooth looks .
I will Draw up changes i have made to this one as these circuits posted up here are adjusted to SSTV.
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Re: The Thylacine higher line rate monitor

Postby Harry Dalek » Sat Aug 12, 2017 9:07 am

Klaas Robers wrote:And is the scanning not scanning up? From the bottom to the top? In most cases the lines are wide in the beginning of the scan and close at the end of the scan. This is then because the input saw tooth is not a linear sawtooth but a exponential saw tooth.

Look first at the wave form on the point where "1.7 volt" is indicated. The saw tooth there should be very linear. If not: as always, rubbish in - rubbish out.


ITs might be how i have connected the deflection yoke or positioned upside down i have not really looked into which way i have connected it all here apart from horizonal deflection to its yoke coil vertical to its .

OK Klass i will have another look at the sawtooth here ..i was mainly looking at the deflection circuits but i see your point ...
'i will post up results
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Re: The Thylacine higher line rate monitor

Postby Harry Dalek » Sat Aug 12, 2017 8:33 pm

I drew up the circuit changes with my part substitutions, the horizontal and vertical are near one the same apart from the deflection yoke values .\
Changed today whats in the schematic... adjusted the voltage to the sawtooth circuit via lm317 seems to give best results at 10 volts
I found its a touch better now and at higher line rates the line spacing is much better not as noticeable lower you go it does show up .
Not overly high line numbers with a 30hz vertical i was testing ..with the new voltage control its changed the sawtooth oscillators range a touch.
I can hard wire the flying spot scanner sawtooth to the deflection amps and by pass these no need to sync then but these come in handy for testing the thing ..i know theres more work to do here but getting there .
The sawtooth readings are from the testpoint base 2n3904...
Below the adjustment tests i have better position control with the vertical ,horizontal has a little movement not overly great here .

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Re: The Thylacine higher line rate monitor

Postby Klaas Robers » Sat Aug 12, 2017 8:50 pm

Very good! But at the base of the 2N3904 I see that the frame sawtooth is still not ramping straight. This might be because of the type electrolytic capacitor of 200 uF. This should be a tantalium capacitor. The aluminium capacitors when discharged, they still keep some of their charge, which returns just after the discharge. That gives a bended sawtooth.
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Re: The Thylacine higher line rate monitor

Postby Harry Dalek » Sat Aug 12, 2017 9:14 pm

Klaas Robers wrote:Very good! But at the base of the 2N3904 I see that the frame sawtooth is still not ramping straight. This might be because of the type electrolytic capacitor of 200 uF. This should be a tantalium capacitor. The aluminium capacitors when discharged, they still keep some of their charge, which returns just after the discharge. That gives a bended sawtooth.


Yes at that test point is where that scope reading was taken ...i was using titanium capacitor Klass ,i had a standard one when i first tested still soldered in there on the multi position switch 1 of 4 on the vertical sawtooth oscillator not used at the moment the titanium is.... i was hoping i had used a standard type but no it is the better type ...now this is harder more head scratching !
I will look into this see if i can work it out ...you have good eyes on this !
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Re: The Thylacine higher line rate monitor

Postby Klaas Robers » Sat Aug 12, 2017 11:51 pm

In any way, see first that the sawtooth at the base of the 2N3904 is linear, not bended. Also look at the sawtooth form at the emitter of this transistor. This should have the SAME FORM. If that is correct, don't suspect the amplifier right of the 2N3904.
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Re: The Thylacine higher line rate monitor

Postby Harry Dalek » Sun Aug 13, 2017 10:58 pm

Klaas Robers wrote:In any way, see first that the sawtooth at the base of the 2N3904 is linear, not bended. Also look at the sawtooth form at the emitter of this transistor. This should have the SAME FORM. If that is correct, don't suspect the amplifier right of the 2N3904.


I had a good look around the area today all looks about the same at the emitter... looking at the sawtooth oscillator it seems to be where its caused i tried a few things to correct it best results were a diode across the BC547 and 549 emitters the old SSTV version has a resistor and capacitor here .
Its a slight improvement and seems to work as well much better than without it.
I also looked into the position and size problems size wise the vertical pretty much can fill the screen top to bottom but horizontal half to a touch less /
Position... verticals position controls pretty good horizontal only middle to the side.
I tried every thing i could think of increasing the horizontal line apart from increasing voltage to its deflection amplifier its understandable the problem its deflection coil is only 1.5 ohm .
So to get a better aspect ratio i stuck a low ohm resistor on the vertical deflection coil and dropped its scan back so at least that works with the horizontal for now .
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Re: The Thylacine higher line rate monitor

Postby Harry Dalek » Tue Nov 07, 2017 7:47 pm

Its been a while and a bit of head scratching but a little bit more progress on the Thylacine monitor .
What i have planned here is use the ADC sawtooth from my PMT camera and drive the deflection circuits here with it so i will have no syncing problems ,but be able to use it to view the higher line rates from my camera .
It has been bothering me for a while is why the horizontal scan would work only from the center of the screen to one side.
Whats ended up letting me do a full screen scan of most of the line rates was adding a controlled negative voltage to the Base of deflection power transistors..it does go funny on 1000 line but this is a magnetic deflected tube designed for 625 line .. reducing the screen size seems to fix this at that line rate which i will put up with ,least i can move on to the modulation side of this CRT.

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Re: The Thylacine higher line rate monitor

Postby Harry Dalek » Sat Dec 23, 2017 7:40 pm

I have been working on the Monitor again got side tracked but back on it step by step ,mainly working on here hooking up the PMT camera raster to the scope which is the flying spot scanner and the monitor which is the view finder ..i did have the horizontal and vertical scanning direction back the front here wrong way around for the scope and monitor ...whoops ! :oops:
Yes i will work out blanking later ...
Just playing with some of the line rates in the video below

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Re: The Thylacine higher line rate monitor

Postby Harry Dalek » Sat Dec 30, 2017 5:51 pm

Got my first results today at good old 32 line for a start ...side ways back the front inverted and out of sync does it get any better :lol: ....so on but i am happy i see something i can recognise and made it still in 2017.
How the set up is at the moment as i was a bit keen after i finished klass's modulation circuit and saw it was working as a scope reading ,its pretty much lap top audio out right to klass's modulation circuit ...i am cathode modulating at the moment ...
I am just using my PMT camera sawtooth to feed the deflection circuits so no syncing reason its way out all over the place ...as a camera view finder would not be a problem but like this it sure is .
I had to also drop the vertical saw tooth amplitude to view the nbtv 32 line format side ways the lines were way to wide apart set for full screen at this low format
Reverse engineering a crt which you have no data to is all trial and error but i am getting close to what i want it to do .
Circuit below ....the 33k resistor on the 2sc5201 collector is removed as i am using much lower voltage not needed /
Had to do a little video as its hard enough taking photos when it works right at this stage not so good ...mainly the BBC test card girl used here .



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