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20th May 2017, 4:57 pm | #61 |
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Re: Marconi 702 advice
I bought the "pig in a poke" MHD4 mentioned above, plus another, cheaper,
7 pin tube which, if the MHS4 is bad, I could sacrifice as plug to use a 4AV6. |
20th May 2017, 7:55 pm | #62 |
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Re: Marconi 702 advice
The EHT is low because th previous restorer, with the rewound transformer,
changed the nature of the setup. There is now a 470K resistor between the transformer and first filter cap, and the bleeder is 12 megohms. As the picture is OK and I don't want to remove the CRT, this will remain for the time being. I remembered to look at the TRF response, and it is similar to the response posted by somebody else above, except that the carrier is well down on the response ... i.e. its truly vestigial sideband reception using the lower sideband. |
20th May 2017, 9:58 pm | #63 | |
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That list doesn't seem to have been updated since I bought the HMV 900 from Mark Parsons. I can give additional details and the new owner pseudonym here, or as feedback. I'd prefer to use this as the feedback page seems to want me to give my real name It's not that I don't mind you knowing my real name, but I'd rather not have it on the list or publicly ... |
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21st May 2017, 4:02 pm | #64 |
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Re: Marconi 702 advice
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22nd May 2017, 3:01 pm | #65 |
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Re: Marconi 702 advice
Part of the audio problem was that the Aurora was set with an audio gain 9 dB too low.
I set it so it clipped occasionally on the ordinary signal and almost always on the very strongest (from a digital set top box). While working on the audio I investigated the bias voltages on the apparently unrestored TRF chassis. They were within 20% of what I would expect with a 10 MOhm meter instead of 100K-250K as specified. But ... that explained why the "sensitivity" control does little. A very large 15K resistor has been put between the top of the pot and the bottom of the rest of its divider chain (between R30 and VR10). This means it can't reduce the first TRF stage screen almost to zero. It is the large resistor seen just at the bottom of the top holding mechanism in the TRF photo. This does not look like a recent (post 1975) change. Its mounted on the tag board in the expected place with the usual looking solder posts holding it, but the wires to it are not the stiff varnished ones mostly used but rather very old cloth covered ones. Also, R2 is 60K. Changing R2 to 5K and the new resistor to 2K by paralleling did result in a larger sensitivity control range, but I did not leave that change in since the sensitivity control itself, while period correct, looks replacement and possibly too low wattage. Changing R2 only to 5K made little difference as the screen current is very low; the measured voltage was still in correct range. Has anybody else seen such changes to the TRF chassis? Since audio is now working OK I will install the back and TRF side panel, awaiting a good MHD4 for the other side. Last edited by dtvmcdonald; 22nd May 2017 at 3:06 pm. |
22nd May 2017, 9:58 pm | #66 |
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Re: Marconi 702 advice
Good to hear that your speaker is OK. It's most unusual for a speaker to go short.
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23rd May 2017, 12:51 am | #67 |
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Re: Marconi 702 advice
The speaker is not good. Its not actually shorted but its output is extremely weak. Its perhaps 25 dB weaker than any of the replacement speakers
I tried. I got the audio output up to OK with gain all the way up voltage wise. The audio is OK, the RF/IF is a bit weak. |
23rd May 2017, 6:53 am | #68 |
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Re: Marconi 702 advice
I recall the speaker on my 702 was also faulty - and had to be replaced early on.
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25th May 2017, 4:48 pm | #69 |
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Re: Marconi 702 advice
Doug,
Sorry to reply so late to your speaker question. It is 4 Ohms, as indicated on the schematic. I measured mine and the DC resistance is 4.0 Ohms. BTW, the speaker from an HMV 900 is completely different (energized). Hope this helps. Jac |
25th May 2017, 7:06 pm | #70 |
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Re: Marconi 702 advice
Yes, it says 4 Ohms and mine is 3.86 Ohms DC.
But that does not mean that it is expected that the output transformer impedance is 4 Ohms. Of course its not critical. |
25th May 2017, 11:03 pm | #71 |
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Re: Marconi 702 advice
I got a replacement MHD4 today and it works exactly as well
as the original and has no shorts. The metallic coating has cracked in a couple of places but of course this is an audio tube and that is immaterial. I also got two 3 1/2 inch "shielded" speakers which indeed are well shielded. They clearly produce a better sound when mounted next to each other in series than one alone or in parallel, so I installed both in the radio with ... don't scroll down if you are fastidious ... cardboard, a big piece of styrofoam, and some duct tape for holding it all in and blocking the sound from getting out where unwanted. This is good and sturdy and will do for now. Surely lower bass than the original, sounds OK. The only remaining problem can't be easily cured. Its a minor wobbling in the picture due to 60Hz magnetic fields from the power transformers. The cure I used on my TRK12, a MuMetal photomultiplier shield on the CRT neck, won't work because of the big tube base. In the TRK12 it was much worse (at 0.03 = 60-59.97 Hz of course). Last edited by dtvmcdonald; 25th May 2017 at 11:08 pm. |
26th May 2017, 8:19 am | #72 |
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Re: Marconi 702 advice
Are you sure that your wobble is due to stray magnetic fields? The 50 Hz mains in the UK is not locked to the 405 line frame rate but we don't see a wobble. It would be worth checking the ripple voltage on your HT lines, especially in the sync unit.
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26th May 2017, 3:16 pm | #73 |
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Re: Marconi 702 advice
I checked the "HT" (B+) lines and they are truly remarkably hum free. It could
of course be pickup from the filaments, but the bottom of the tube is remarkably sensitive to even weak permanent magnets. Its very minor. I would not have noticed it at 0.03 Hz. |
26th May 2017, 7:42 pm | #74 |
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Re: Marconi 702 advice
If I look at the shutter speed that my automatic camera used to take the test card image below it was 1/2 sec. If it was wobbling I think there would be obvious blurring of the image.
(I know there is no interlace in this image. This is due to the poorly formed syncs in my current PC + graphics card set-up.) Peter |
3rd Jun 2017, 5:51 pm | #75 |
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Re: Marconi 702 advice
Night before last I watched a whole suitably period movie, "The 39 Steps", on my 702,
quite satisfactorily. I also listened to it, rather unsatisfactorily. The audio level was below what my ATSC STB or my cable box puts out, and also, I find British accents difficult. (I have to turn the center channel up 10dB on multichannel ones like Harry Potter or LOTR, then they are OK on my big home theater audio setup). There is still thus something wrong with my set. Either there is something still wrong with the audio chassis, or its this: I think my video TRF system after the 2nd stage has too high a gain. This is because its tuned too narrow. I have it about 2.5 MHz wide, all lower sideband with a vestigial upper sideband. This requires that I turn down the signal level compared to what the audio needs. Three times I've tried to get a good picture with it 5 MHz wide double sideband, but it always ends up with a lumpy response that results in "ringy" video. Does anybody who has aligned one of these have a surefire method of doing that? I tried following manual directions carefully, at various "modes", as well as that then just tweeking. When a great picture appeared, it was always VSB using the lower sideband. I have also contemplated reducing the gain of one or two of the last four stages, but have failed due to the use of sharp-cutoff pentodes. Perhaps buy a suitable remote cutoff pentode or two and increase their cathode resistors? What's a suitable valve type? That I can't seem to do it "by the book" is bothersome. |
4th Jun 2017, 3:25 pm | #76 |
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Re: Marconi 702 advice
You get a reasonable start by doing it by the book but there after you just need to do it iteratively with a a tiny tweak watching the effect each time. In my set I found the metal screen that partitions the video detector stage was very influential and a bit tricky because it is tied to the chassis by the clamping action of the brass tuning nut and the plastic coil former and the thread in my former was damaged and not really capable of clamping properly.
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4th Jun 2017, 3:55 pm | #77 |
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Re: Marconi 702 advice
I have done nothing to the below the chassis parts under the small shields.
I simply looked in, dusted off with a small paint brush, and measured the resistors and a couple of random mica caps, all of which were OK. A couple of resistors were clearly non-original but period correct. But your experience is similar to mine: by the book is quite horrible response. No matter which "official" tune I tried I got a horrible overshoot on the transient response, in the range 50 to 100% overshoot, just different amounts and time constants with different tunes. However the physical position of the tuners was quite close except for the two adjustments of the last stage, which are super-critical to a good transient response and needed a lot of tweek. I adjusted them looking at transient response on a scope rather than frequency response ... the result was always as I described: VSB. This may be unfixable without totally disassembling the set, as two audio IF transformer trimmers are hidden under a mounting bracket ... but the IF response shows no signs of two peaks unless I add a bit of capacitance to a transformer, and then it does. |