Featured

Latest

Notifications

Clear all

Forum 1

B&W TV Latest restoration finished pictures

Black & White Television

Last Post by Doz 8 months ago

5 Posts

4 Users

6 Reactions

225 Views

irob2345

(@irob2345)

Posts: 704

Honorable Member Registered

Topic starter

Bet you haven't seen one of these before!

I got this "desirable" TV, an AWA P4, as a very dirty basket case.

I had to adapt a different line transformer to it.

It had a LOT of faults, but the 7 valves and the CRT were all good.

It's a "Tribrid" design from 1967. It has that tuner I just posted about.

Anyway, some pics:

Posted : 07/04/2024 10:20 am

ntscuser, Jayceebee, slidertogrid and 2 people reacted

slidertogrid

(@slidertogrid)

Posts: 1383

Prominent Member Registered

@irob2345 Looks good! It has a styling that makes it look more recent than the '60's it would have still looked modern in the '70s' 7 valves in a small plastic cabinet, does it get warm?

Posted : 07/04/2024 2:16 pm

Jayceebee

(@jayceebee)

Posts: 2128

Prominent Member Registered

Wow, very stylish. I would never have guessed that was from the 60s.

John.

Posted : 07/04/2024 6:51 pm

irob2345

(@irob2345)

Posts: 704

Honorable Member Registered

Topic starter

Well this TV in very sorry state cost me $80.

I really wanted an orange one! A friend has one, although he is currently giving away much of his collection, he won't part with the Orange P4!

It's a 17" telly so the cabinet is not that small and is well ventilated. No mains dropper resistor!! It runs 200V HT from a small C core mains transformer and voltage doubler (being an Oz TV it is not live chassis) so everything is under-run to keep the heat down. The line output (6CM5 / EL36) and damper (6AX4) are mounted near the top of the cabinet with a metal heat shield above them.

Yes it was very avant-garde for '67, probably too much so for many buyers at the time. It sold reasonably well but I don't think it was the huge success AWA were hoping for. Certainly not in the league of the Pye Pedigree.

It would have been a labour-intensive build, despite the PCB, so I doubt AWA ever made much money out of them.

Since it is an AWA and consequently its electronic design has some RCA brushstrokes, I posted the full blow-by-blow of the restoration on the US site, with pics and circuits.

https://antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=436822&sid=2a4a90ad9c94f1c6afcdec9d8df06c02

Posted : 08/04/2024 8:06 am

Tazman1966 reacted