Dust!

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Wow!

Great find, maybe some good dusting would do and some glass cleanning spray can take the outside?

Does it work?

Wouter wrote:

After my beomaster 900's I added another 900 to my collection, but now a beovision 900! Although it may not have been the top of the line, the design is appealing to me. 

 

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There do not seem so much vintage tv's around any more, but for the few times a I watch tv it will do fine. Furthermore the "vintage" experience will be fun.

Before I will be able to use it I think I have to clean it and get rid of all the dust first. I think that I could use some preventive maintenance, could someone please shed a light on this?

Furthermore, the sticker above the tape connector reads: transformer not mounted.

Could I use this connector for another input?

What a nice old TV!

I know it is not possible to compare the build quality of those vintage TV-sets with the new oversized flat screens but I like them to. As you said the "vintage experience" looking on it is guaranteed 😕

I own two of them, the Beovision 400 and Beovision 600 White on the trumpet stand, both fully functional. Even though I use them very occasionally I like them more as nice old vintage objects in my collection.

Nice to see one of them rescued!

One of my favourite old TV designs. Great to see another one saved as they are becoming rarer and rarer nowadays. 

Lovely to see some pictures here as well, there aren't many vintage TV threads on Beoworld sadly!

Ben

Yes, fortunately it does still work, but I want to give it a service before I use it to make sure that it survives longer than a week... A great amount of dust already came off but it needs some further cleaning.

When I compare it to the 8-40 that is hanging here, it looks so elegant!

Unfortunately they stopped air transmitting television in The Netherlands in 2006 so I need to connect via a cable. How should I connect this to the beovision?

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Nice set!

It's a bit hard to make out from the picture, but you only seem to have a connector for the UHF socket. I have no idea which frequency range the analog cable transmissions over there use, but I suspect most of the channels would be on VHF.

I think I'd just get a cheap set top box that includes an RF modulator. The modulators send almost always on UHF. Then you could watch digital channels and get remote control as well 🙂

As the cable transmissions are strong, I believe you can ignore the impedance mismatch (the UHF socket of the Beovision is fixed at 240 ohms, while all modern aerial connections are 75 ohm) and just make your own cable with a coaxial connector at the wall terminal / set top box end.

(If I understand correctly, the VHF input can be configured to 75 ohms if you flip the small piece of circuit board over.)

tournedos wrote:

Nice set!

It's a bit hard to make out from the picture, but you only seem to have a connector for the UHF socket. I have no idea which frequency range the analog cable transmissions over there use, but I suspect most of the channels would be on VHF.

I think I'd just get a cheap set top box that includes an RF modulator. The modulators send almost always on UHF. Then you could watch digital channels and get remote control as well 🙂

As the cable transmissions are strong, I believe you can ignore the impedance mismatch (the UHF socket of the Beovision is fixed at 240 ohms, while all modern aerial connections are 75 ohm) and just make your own cable with a coaxial connector at the wall terminal / set top box end.

(If I understand correctly, the VHF input can be configured to 75 ohms if you flip the small piece of circuit board over.)

The TV frequencies here seem to be between the 170 - 780 MHz and the cable connection is 75 ohms indeed. Should I flip over this small piece of circuit board over or will it work when I just connect it?

I added a picture of the service manual, I'm not really able to read those things as I never learned to do so, but I think this is the part needed...

I think this is what Mika meant.

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Should I just connect the middle wire of the coax cable to the middle of the three?

The plug I have, type D has a plastic middle pin...

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The plugs in that photo are all used for radio.
Your plug is a VHF (TV) type. It's much wider than "D" from the photos above and it has a much wider center tap.

Great to see a vintage thread, albeit a TV one. Always wonderful to see something outside the "usual range". 🤒

Martin