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TNC · 27th Apr 2007, 11:50 pm

Hi Dazzlevision - thanks for your very helpful comments.

Tonight I started to dismantle the set and wonder if you have any suggestions as to how best one can improve access without disconnecting much of the wiring! It really is a bit of a bird's-nest!!
I wonder if it would be better to remove the CRT and gain access through that space rather than a massive unsoldering exercise? (I think photographs will also be needed!)

The sound symptom on 405 is complete silence but on 625 there is plenty of useful hiss...but no actual sound. I am therefore wondering whether the o/p trannys may have survived.

By the way you mentioned one o/p transistor as an OC81 but mine has an AC128 and an AC127...so is the OC81 an equivalent for the AC128?

Last point...the manual makes much of the need to use a heat sink when re-fitting transistors...but for the life of me I can't see there is any room to use anything other than a very small pair grips on the lead being soldered...what's you experience of this issue?

Thanks again for your thoughts,

atb Trevor.

27th Apr 2007, 11:50 pm	#24
TNC Hexode Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, UK. Posts: 386	Re: Philips T-Vette Hi Dazzlevision - thanks for your very helpful comments. Tonight I started to dismantle the set and wonder if you have any suggestions as to how best one can improve access without disconnecting much of the wiring! It really is a bit of a bird's-nest!! I wonder if it would be better to remove the CRT and gain access through that space rather than a massive unsoldering exercise? (I think photographs will also be needed!) The sound symptom on 405 is complete silence but on 625 there is plenty of useful hiss...but no actual sound. I am therefore wondering whether the o/p trannys may have survived. By the way you mentioned one o/p transistor as an OC81 but mine has an AC128 and an AC127...so is the OC81 an equivalent for the AC128? Last point...the manual makes much of the need to use a heat sink when re-fitting transistors...but for the life of me I can't see there is any room to use anything other than a very small pair grips on the lead being soldered...what's you experience of this issue? Thanks again for your thoughts, atb Trevor.