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Old 15th Jun 2005, 2:54 pm   #1
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Default Aurora standard converter mode 819/25i

http://converter.home.comcast.net/User_Manual_3.9.pdf
Hi,
I noticed that the french system has a very different V- sync against
the british and the american standard.
The V puls is only one puls 0,4 x 1 line.

Reading page 10 of the manual it looks like the 819 V sync is the same
kind like the 405 V sync.

My question is: Does the aurora generate this special V- puls in 819 ?

Please excuse me for this question not depending in the british standard.
The aurora was discussed here, that's why I ask here.

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Old 15th Jun 2005, 3:11 pm   #2
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Default Re: aurora standard converter mode 819/25i

Why not ask Darryl directly? He designed the Aurora converter so he will know why he chose a particular sort of V sync for 819. I suspect he chose a more complex V sync to give better V lock and interlace. He also made EQ pulses switchable so that you can choose between authenticity and best interlace.
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Old 15th Jun 2005, 4:58 pm   #3
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Default Re: aurora standard converter mode 819/25i

"Why not ask Darryl directly? "

Hi Jeffrey, Darryl is a forum member and some people in the forum
have an aurora. Maybe this is interesting
for them too.
That's why I asked here.

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Old 15th Jun 2005, 11:14 pm   #4
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Default Re: aurora standard converter mode 819/25i

Hi Darius,
I've been reading with fascination your postings about re-flashing a getter on a crt, but that's another thread

On the converter, the original 819/25i, 441/25i, 405/25i and 343/30i standards did not have equalization pulses. Since this did not provide for the best possible interlacing, I included an option to add eq pulses to these standards. If you turn this option on, eq pulses will be added to the original waveform. If you turn it off, they will not be added, and each waveform will match the original spec, in the case of 819, one small broad pulse per field.
The four formats still always follow their orignal specifactions, they were just grouped together for this feature since they were the only original interlaced waveforms that did not use eq pulses.

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"in the case of 819, one small broad pulse per field."

Good morning Darryl,

thanks for your answer. I am very impressed about your aurora again!

From your discription on page 10 I thaught it is like the other V- syncs.
I did not know about this special V sync and I was
very sureprised about it!
There is only one 20us V- pulse.
This makes possible to build a TV set without any H and V oscillators.
My friend Michael got one of these strange sets

Time ago, one forum member showed us a screenshot of a 819
signal he received in England on a 405 line set.
The result was two small pics on the screen.
You get the same if you switch your DVD to progressive scan and watch
it on a 15,625KHz monitor.

The interesting thing is how his 405 set syncs on this small V-puls.
I think the answer is the V- sync sep from PYE described in
"The principles of television reception- Keen".

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Old 16th Jun 2005, 8:44 pm   #6
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Default Re: aurora standard converter mode 819/25i

Here is the french 819 standard:
(from "Philips Fernsehen 1951)

819 Zeilen 819 lines

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Old 17th Jun 2005, 1:11 am   #7
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It's quite amazing looking at the VBI area in the 819 standard. I don't know of any other standard that used just a single broad pulse for the vertical sync. It would be interesting to see the sync seperator that was used on these sets.

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Hi Darryl,

here is the schematic of Michaels Ducretet TL1468.
Please note, the deflection stages are not working without signal.

I know this from simple monochrom display monitors.

Look at the Sony CVM-90UM ( dual standard)
it uses the PYE circuit with D701 D702.
Because of dual standard it has oscillators.

To get all the advantages of the 819 standard you must find a
819 only telly.

At the moment Michael runns his set provisorial with a 7BP7 crt.
(It was spare for my SSTV monitor)
And with 625/25i. The EQ pulses and the long V sync causes trouble,
they pull down the booster voltage. You can hear this.

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Old 17th Jun 2005, 9:45 pm   #9
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Hi Darius,
Thanks for all the information. I am surprised that the TL1468 doesn't use line or frame osc's, but only integrators! It certainly made for a simple design. I was also surprised by the minimal difference between the line and frame sync pulses that the seperator had to deal with. This is definitely one of the more cleaver systems I have seen, and I appreciate finally being able to see how the original sets worked.

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Old 23rd Jun 2005, 9:37 am   #10
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Default Re: aurora standard converter mode 819/25i

https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...5&page=2&pp=20

Hi,
the forum member who made this screenshot was Peter Scott!
I found it in the forum archiv! It is #36.

It seems to me that the H sync is locked but the V sync not.
Do you remember this Peter?

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Default Re: aurora standard converter mode 819/25i

Quote:
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It seems to me that the H sync is locked but the V sync not.
Do you remember this Peter?
Hi Darius,

Given that it's about 40 years since I took the photo my memory of it is a little
vague. However looking at the image I see that the frame flyback lines are black
which makes me think that 819 must have been negative modulated. The set I used was an unmodified 405 line Ekco so it was probably not synch'ed in either line or frame. I will just have adjusted the free running rates to get the semblence of a picture.

Peter.

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Old 23rd Jun 2005, 3:57 pm   #12
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Default Re: aurora standard converter mode 819/25i

Maybe Peter Scott was unlucky not to get a locked picture on his Ekco. The Pye VT4 (a British 405-only set c1955) used to lock to 819 giving 2 narrow pictures without changing the vertical or horizontal hold controls from the 405 settings. There was a pre-set line hold trimmer capacitor on the side of the chassis whose adjustment range was so great that the line frequency could be doubled and a true 819 picture could be displayed. Pity about the horizontal resolution being spoilt by the 405 IF bandwidth. And a second TV was needed to tune into the sound because of the wider sound/vision spacing!
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Old 23rd Jun 2005, 4:52 pm   #13
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Very interesting to hear this.
The PYE vertical sync sep is able to handle this short V pulse.
I expected this.

I am sure Peter's EKCO locked in horizontal but he had a H-phase shift.
The EKCO has a flywheel H sync.
The V separator did not react on the short V puls (integrator).
The picture is moving up or down slowly.

The dark lines comes from the V blanking stages in the set. It is a late 50th
EKCO like mine I think.
The modulation is definatly AM positiv like in GB.

In the 819 system you must use positiv modulation.
With negativ modulation noise generates a V -sync I think!

Maybe someone here has an aurora and can switch it to 819.
Let us see what happens on a 405 set!

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PS: Where are Michaels screenshots from the 819 set with the 7BP7
radar "tube" ?
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The Pye VT4 also has flywheel line sync.
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