Really impressive how well the old weather beaten TV works after you had rejuvenated the CRT. You mentioned how scarce brighteners were becoming. What I used to do when I fixed old TVs way back when I was a student was to was to take an old 120V:12V filament transformer and connect one side of the 12V winding to the 120V winding to create and auto-transformer that raised input by 10%. Now splice that into the wires going to the CRT filament and connect the stepped up output of the transformer to the CRT filament. The nice thing about filament transformers is you can often easily screw them to the metal chassis somewhere and even today are fairly easy to come by. Subscribed! Keep up the videos!
OMG! THAT'S IT! I've been banging my head trying to remember the name of the rejuvinator that I had or find pictures of it, but never could. Then I see this vid and THERE IT IS! In my time, I had several rejuvs that were good, but this REM was the BEST of all of them. Oh the memories. LOL I know that you indicated that you don't think this rejuvinator is very good, but I can tell you from experience, it was amazing. I had a B&K that was also very good, but I still liked this one better. One thing though, as the rejuvenation process seemed to work very well, I wouldn't recommend leaving the "brightener" on it. Brighteners actually reduce the life of a CRT and since emissions seem to almost be close to factory new, letting the tube run with it's own filament voltage is the best way. Like you say, though, there's no telling how long the rejuv will last. I've had some last for years and some only a few hours. The "newer" CRTS from the 1980s where horrible to rejuv and in fact, most didn't at all and got worse. Part of the reason was the thinner metals used inside. Anyway, looks good and have fun!
The REM is a great machine. I use to have one beck in the 1980s when I ran service calls and wish I had it back. Been looking for another one I can afford for years.
There's a limit to how much power can be gotten from the filament circuit in series string. Parallel might get you enough to burn something out even if not the CRT filament.
Really impressive how well the old weather beaten TV works after you had rejuvenated the CRT.
You mentioned how scarce brighteners were becoming. What I used to do when I fixed old TVs way back when I was a student was to was to take an old 120V:12V filament transformer and connect one side of the 12V winding to the 120V winding to create and auto-transformer that raised input by 10%. Now splice that into the wires going to the CRT filament and connect the stepped up output of the transformer to the CRT filament. The nice thing about filament transformers is you can often easily screw them to the metal chassis somewhere and even today are fairly easy to come by.
Subscribed! Keep up the videos!
OMG! THAT'S IT!
I've been banging my head trying to remember the name of the rejuvinator that I had or find pictures of it, but never could.
Then I see this vid and THERE IT IS!
In my time, I had several rejuvs that were good, but this REM was the BEST of all of them.
Oh the memories. LOL
I know that you indicated that you don't think this rejuvinator is very good, but I can tell you from experience, it was amazing.
I had a B&K that was also very good, but I still liked this one better.
One thing though, as the rejuvenation process seemed to work very well, I wouldn't recommend leaving the "brightener" on it.
Brighteners actually reduce the life of a CRT and since emissions seem to almost be close to factory new, letting the tube run with it's own filament voltage is the best way.
Like you say, though, there's no telling how long the rejuv will last.
I've had some last for years and some only a few hours.
The "newer" CRTS from the 1980s where horrible to rejuv and in fact, most didn't at all and got worse.
Part of the reason was the thinner metals used inside.
Anyway, looks good and have fun!
The REM is a great machine. I use to have one beck in the 1980s when I ran service calls and wish I had it back. Been looking for another one I can afford for years.
I thought the socket can only be put on one way orientation to the focus pin
The gimmicky rejuvenator seems to work magic, at least for now.
What would happen if you put multiple brighteners in place in series on a TV??
At some point, it's gonna burn. High gain going into circuits expecting less.
There's a limit to how much power can be gotten from the filament circuit in series string. Parallel might get you enough to burn something out even if not the CRT filament.
hey, i recently started collecting old televisions. i was hoping to see if you could help me find the power cable to one I came across.
Edit your videos. Way too raw and much wasted time, such as walking around.
Doesn‘t disrupt me at all… stay with your style!