Tek 611

I have a TEK611 I'll probably be willing to part with when I dig it out in a few months. Paul, or Bruce, or whatever.....

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: > On 07/23/2012 02:04 PM, Holm Tiffe wrote: >> This monday the Tek has finally arrived. >> There was no real function, it seemed that only the flood system was >> working. Measured something here and there and found an non working OPV >> in the HV Circuit (???709), > > Wow, I haven't seen one of those in a while! > >> replaced it but still not working. >> Finally decided to desolder the wires from the HV Transformer to heater >> from the wirting gun and measured no connection. O shit.! > > 8-< > >> Dismounted the fan on the back and looked inside towards the tubes socket, >> ...hmm crooked???? Pulled on the wires and the socked was loose. >> I've found some bent Pins on the tube strigthened them carefully and took >> the socket back in Place, switched on the Power and voila! The tube >> pictured the test spiral... > > Excellent!! > >> The Tube has some small burns, but really isn't that bad. I think I'll >> never see another Tek 6110 Storage Tube, so that thing must work as is. >> (or has someone another in stock and wants to sell it into a good home?) > > I have a "basket case" 611 here. It was raped for parts. Since I > recently got a copy of the documentation (thanks Richard!) I can now dig > into it and see what's missing. I hope to be able to repair it, but if > it's not repairable, I may not have much reason to keep it. (If it uses > the same CRT as my Tek 4012 terminal, which I think it might, then I'd > probably keep it for that reason.) > >> I think tests with the PDP11 and D/A converters have to wait until winter, >> thats getting too much warmt in here... > > You'll have to take a lot of pics of that! > > -Dave > > -- > Dave McGuire, AK4HZ > New Kensington, PA