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David Looser · 26th Jul 2006, 8:55 pm

Thanks for your welcome Jeffrey, yes it must have been at least 15 years - how time flies! That converter is still in use and has never given me any trouble at all. A few weekends ago I used it at a "Bygones" exhibition in the local church feeding a Pye B16T and a Bush TV22 which attracted a lot of attention. The Bush worked fine for the two days of the show, but the Pye failed during the second day. A .001 paper capacitor in the RF strip had failed and shorted out the HT!. I've since replaced every single one of them.

Returning to the question of 240-lines, some years ago I designed a 625-240 line converter to feed my dual-standard HMV 901. But with one thing and another it never got built. Now with Kat's PC-based approach I might re-visit this.

David.

26th Jul 2006, 8:55 pm	#15
David Looser Retired Dormant Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Ipswich Posts: 5	Re: Baird 240 line standard details wanted Thanks for your welcome Jeffrey, yes it must have been at least 15 years - how time flies! That converter is still in use and has never given me any trouble at all. A few weekends ago I used it at a "Bygones" exhibition in the local church feeding a Pye B16T and a Bush TV22 which attracted a lot of attention. The Bush worked fine for the two days of the show, but the Pye failed during the second day. A .001 paper capacitor in the RF strip had failed and shorted out the HT!. I've since replaced every single one of them. Returning to the question of 240-lines, some years ago I designed a 625-240 line converter to feed my dual-standard HMV 901. But with one thing and another it never got built. Now with Kat's PC-based approach I might re-visit this. David.