Just did my first tube swap. 4600 with a H/C short in red gun was an xl 100 tv the horz and vert imped's were off a little bit but she works just fine
Andrew
Andrew
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Just did my first tube swap. 4600 with a H/C short in red gun was an xl 100 tv the horz and vert imped's were off a little bit but she works just fine
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Andrew
Nice job. What's an xl 100 tv? How did you figure out which one would be compatible? I'm wanting to do this with a g07 but don't have a clue how to find the right tv.
any tube that starts with a48 will work with a G07, 4600, 4900, cr23 adapter
Almost. A48 is the prefix meaning a 19" tube. The "48" is the size in centipedes, or centimeters, or something like that - it's a foreign measurement system that we don't use here. There exist several tubes that begin with A48 that don't use the CR23 adapter. If you want to look up a tube number, the manual for the B&K picture tube tester has pretty much all tubes listed, along with the connector they use - but, even then, occasionally you'll find one not on the list.
There are *thousands* of different models of TV sets. And not all TV model numbers make sense, or are even on the back of the set. Trying to document them all is futile. It's much easier to just grab sets that might work, and check them when you get home. Some TV's are actually 20" tubes, gotta watch out for those, they won't fit in an arcade monitor frame without modification. Bring a measuring tape if you can't tell by looking. Also, if you have a picture tube tester, test the tube first. I've found some sets with really, really weak picture tubes. Some people left their televisions on all the time, the tube might have more hours on it than the arcade tube you're replacing!
Also note that Sony Trinitron sets will NOT work. They're different. You should still pick them up if you find a really nice 80's one. Those woodgrain Trinitron sets have the most awesome picture.
-Ian
RCA called a whole huge series of sets "XL 100" starting some time in the 70's. They came in all shapes and sizes, and I think the name stuck around into the late 90's. It stood for "eXtended Life, 100% solid state" - i.e, all transistors, no tubes or nuvistors.
Here's how you find a TV to swap tubes with: go out on trash night, and find 80's/early 90's era 19" TV sets and pick them up. Take the back off and compare the neck connector on the tube to the one in the arcade monitor. There are only a couple of different types of neck connector out there. If it uses the same neck connector, then it's electrically compatible.
Then unplug the yoke connector from the board, and measure the DC resistance of the horizontal and vertical yoke windings. Compare this to the ones from your arcade monitor. If they're really close, then you should be able to just plug and play (or adapt the plugs and play). If they are too far off, then you'll have to swap the yokes. In general, you want to keep the yoke with the chassis and swap only the tube, but you can cheat if the yokes measure close enough.
-Ian
Theres a spreadsheet somebody did on here any tube that starts with a48 will work with a G07, 4600, 4900, cr23 adapter but I got lucky with the tv being a very close match look through the vents with a flashlight at the tube number
Andrew
Almost. If you have to swap yokes your results will be mixed, to say the least. Sometimes you might get lucky and the arcade yoke will work well with the TV tube, but many times it won't. Yokes need to match the TV's guns just as much as they need to match the chassis, and the guns will vary from tube to tube, even though the neck connector is the same.
Once you've seen a 90 degree television tube in a 6100, and properly converged, you know just about anything is possible.
-Ian
Once you've seen a 90 degree television tube in a 6100, and properly converged, you know just about anything is possible.
Finally someone found something useful to do with a MK PCBI use a Mortal Kombat board on my test rig. I don't even have the sound board that goes with it, I just use it for monitor patterns.
-Ian
Finally someone found something useful to do with a MK PCB![]()
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Quick question, are you guys able to see if a tube is 90 or antyhing else degrees by looking at a picture ?
I was wondering about this tube what angle it is and if it would be suitable.
The code of the tube is 510WFB22 and I can't find anything about it on the net...
I have reasons to believe it's a RELL tube..