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CatchAce
Joined: May 11, 2011 Posts: 27 Location: Chesapeke, Virginia, USA
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 4:33 pm Post subject:
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Kerr_Avon wrote: | No don't. ........ perfectly good old oscilloscopes are about 20USD. |
where exactly have you been looking? i repeatedly come up with the general consensus (google) that even the meagerest of scopes is not a dime below $200 USD. |
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inlifeindeath
Joined: Apr 02, 2010 Posts: 316 Location: Albuquerque, NM
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 6:33 am Post subject:
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check craigslist. i just got a Leader LBO 523 and a bunch of probes for $40. Was asking $75 but I haggled him down.
I also got an EEG/ECG machine for $5 from a junk store down the road. Has an audio in and a CRT screen.
Check out my youtube channel to see both in action. _________________ http://www.youtube.com/user/borisandfef |
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bikini-inspector
Joined: Nov 29, 2007 Posts: 16 Location: bremen
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 9:29 am Post subject:
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hi
so i've done this to an old B&W tv i found in the attic.
i left the vertical wires in place and connected an input jack to the horizontal wires. This gave me vertical waveforms when i ran audio into it.
so i rotated the coils 90 degrees to get horizontal waveforms.
the advantage of this is, that i can use the Vhold and Vsize trimpots to adjust the display to the respective waveform and somewhat "lock" the waveform to the sceen.
this is how it looks when i hook it up to one of the speaker outs of my home stereo:
old CRT tv as an oscilloscope/visualizer from the shizcake on Vimeo.
however, i would like to make this thingy standalone by adding a built-in amplifier. Because now, i can't turn up the volume on my stereo without altering the amplitude on the screen.
i had this module laying around, but the waves on the screen lose their smooth sexyness when i use it via my stereo's rec out.
pls compare the 2 attached pics
so my question is, what are my options? get anothe hifi amp and use it solely for the TV?
or are there any good low-distortion, low cost, low effort amp kits/modules/plans out there that are recommended for sth like this?
the coil reads around 1,7 ohms btw, not sure how long my stereo wants to deal with that..
regards
ben
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mosc
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Joined: Jan 31, 2003 Posts: 18195 Location: Durham, NC
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:44 am Post subject:
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bikini-inspector wrote: |
so my question is, what are my options? get anothe hifi amp and use it solely for the TV?
or are there any good low-distortion, low cost, low effort amp kits/modules/plans out there that are recommended for sth like this?
the coil reads around 1,7 ohms btw, not sure how long my stereo wants to deal with that.. |
I suggest going to a pawn shop, or 2nd hand shop, and pick up an old ugly relic stereo amp that nobody wants. Most solid-state amps should be able to kick 1.7 ohms. I would be careful driving your new display TV with a good home hifi.
Thanks for sharing... _________________ --Howard
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bikini-inspector
Joined: Nov 29, 2007 Posts: 16 Location: bremen
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:32 am Post subject:
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yeah, that's what i thought.
missed the flea market this morning because i was hung over, so maybe next week..
i've been thinking a little: would it make sense to put a transformer on the input (1:1 maybe)? would this fix impedance issues for the amplifier? |
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mosc
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Joined: Jan 31, 2003 Posts: 18195 Location: Durham, NC
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 1:19 pm Post subject:
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bikini-inspector wrote: |
i've been thinking a little: would it make sense to put a transformer on the input (1:1 maybe)? would this fix impedance issues for the amplifier? |
It might, but the only way to know is to experiment. _________________ --Howard
my music and other stuff |
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bikini-inspector
Joined: Nov 29, 2007 Posts: 16 Location: bremen
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 1:45 pm Post subject:
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so i finally found an old schneider 6145ea "HIFI" amp at the flea market for 8 bucks. Sounds crappy, but works fine for the tv on the rec out of my regular amp and has 3 more switchable inputs (2 of which are working ).
don't care too much if this thing will be fried, so i ditched the transformer idea and hooked the tv straight to a speaker out.
anyway, thank you for your time and have a good one! |
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YashN
Joined: Jun 27, 2011 Posts: 104 Location: Canada
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:34 pm Post subject:
Using TV/Monitor chips to do audio |
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I have seen some of these installations, but inspired by the electronicpeasants, I have salvaged a lot of monitor chips.
What I would prefer is to find ways of reusing these chips for audio. |
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Glitch-Militia
Joined: Apr 25, 2011 Posts: 25 Location: Europe
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 2:04 pm Post subject:
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Here's mine.
I connected the wires from the horizontal deflector coil to the vertical supply
Then I connected the wires from the vertical deflector coil to a small amplifier.
The output is very small. It is a horizontal line.
I'm not quite satisfied. But it still looks nice.
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BrotherJacob
Joined: Jan 10, 2014 Posts: 1 Location: Outa Space
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Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2014 9:33 am Post subject:
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Servus! The initial post by daniel mentioned, that it is possible to get a colour adjustable circuit bent tv running. unfortunately the links he provided in the beginning of the topic do not work anymore and I can't seem to find a hint on how to do that elsewhere. does someone know, where to find this information, as I am ok with most of the fiddling around but I cannot seem to figure it out by myself. he mentioned censtron doing that in 2006... yours, brother jacob |
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