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Granada Television Brochure, 1970s
Long Gone UK TV Shops
Memories of a Derwent Field Service Engineer
PYE Australia Circa 1971
Radios-TV VRAT
Fabulous Fablon
Thorn TX10 Chassis
Crusty-TV Museum, Analogue TV Network
Philips N1500 Warning!
Rumbelows
Thorn EMI Advertising
Thorn’s Guide to Servicing a VCR
Ferguson 3V24 De-Robed
Want to tell us a story?
Video Circuits V15 – Tripler Tester
Thorn Chassis Guide
Remove Teletext Lines & VCR Problems
Ceefax (Teletext)
Suggestions
Website Refresh
Colour TV Brochures
1970s Lounge Recreation
CrustyTV Vintage Television Museum
Linda Lovelace Experience
Humbars on a Sony KV2702
1972 Ultra 6713
D|E|R Service “The Best”
The one that got away
Technical information
The Line Output Stage
The map
Tales of a newly qualified young engineer.
Tales of a Radio Rentals Van Boy
Sanyo SMD
Disastrous Company Rebranding
1969 Philips G22K511
Memories Of The TV Trade
Crazy house
Dirty TV screens
Dual Standard and Single Standard CTV’s
Radios-TV on YouTube
The Winter of 62/63
A domestic audio installation
1979 Ferguson Videostar Deluxe 3V16
Music centre modifications
Unusual record player modification
B&K 467 Adapters
Mishaps In The Trade
1971 Beovision 3200
1971 Bush CTV1120
Variac box
Today I made up a little break out / control box for my variac using parts I had in the workshop. There is nothing in the circuitry, I had a cheap chinese 300VAC meter movement left over from another job, these are surprisingly good quality and very cheap, this wired direct to the output of the variac before the switch, so a voltage can be set before applying power. The neon was probably not worth bothering with, especially as I didn't check it and fitted a 24V bulb, it lit once. The 4mm sockets can be used to insert a lamp limiter or ammeter, but I've ordered a 5A meter and will fit it in the hole I cut once it arrives and is cleaned. The whole lot fits in an electrical junction box screwed onto a wooden base along with the variac. A couple of hours effort makes the variac a much easier to use.
Here's mine circa 1987 ish...
Here is the final result with the meter fitted, new neon and better knob.
Those Chinese meter movements are really good value, it arrived really quickly, the packaging was disposed of and meter cleaned of course. They look really robust and I've bought a few, they aren't very well packed but all have arrived intact and working, they also have a nice vintage look and seem accurate enough for indications purposes.
Hi Tony, Yes I will try that, I used a Q-max cutter for a nice clean cut. Unfortunately since I started this thread my variac has bitten the dust ! The brush failed and caused the winding to go open circuit at the point of contact. Variac brushes and old variacs seem to be very expensive however there are cheap Chinese units but I'm unsure of the quality of these. So at the moment the box is just used as a lamp limiter.
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