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- S C R I B B L E V I S I O N
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- 11-MAY-90
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- If you open the back of a TV, there's the neck of the picture tube sticking
- out the back. It has a 'yoke' around it that is made of two large
- saddle-shaped coils, usually of lacquered copper wire. Sometimes the coils are
- wrapped in tape or plastic or an insulation of some kind, but they're usually
- just copper.
-
- _____
- | \ Yoke (wraps around tube neck)
- | \ =====
- | \-----------\-|
- | Picture Tube |-| (plug on END of tube neck remains connected)
- | /-----------/-|
- | / =====\
- |_____/ Yoke \ Wires from YOKE to CHASSIS
- \ (cut these and connect YOKE to STEREO)
- \
- \ (leave the CHASSIS end of the wires UNCONNECTED)
- -------------------------
- | TV Chassis |
- -------------------------
-
-
- OK. Sometimes there is a bundle of wires or a multi-wire cable that goes from
- the yoke coil to the chassis. (the yoke coil defects the light spot back and
- forth so that it scans out the TV picture. Check an encyclopedia or TV repair
- book at a library for illustrations or block diagrams etc. if this isn't
- clear) anyway, the yoke coil will be connected to the main chassis/circuitry
- of the TV set by several wires, sometimes there's a cable connector or
- multi-pin plug/socket arrangement on the end. What you have to do is
- disconnect ALL wires that lead from the chassis to the yoke coils (do this
- with the TV _OFF_ : HIGH VOLTAGE!!!). If the yoke wires have a connector,
- just unplug it from the chassis. If the yoke wires are soldered on to the
- chassis you will have to cut them. There will also be wires running from a
- plug/socket on the very end of the neck of the picture tube. Leave these
- connected - they are needed to warm up the picture tube so you get an image
- on the screen.
-
- Now, turn the tv on and carefully touch a pair of speaker wires connected to
- a playing stereo, (or just run a 9 volt battery over to the yoke wires) try
- out various pairs of wires until you see the spot of light that will be in
- the center of the TV picture (you have disabled scanning and should only see
- one dot on the face of the picture tube) uh, try connecting voltage or
- speaker audio into pairs of yoke wires until you have determined which two
- pair of wires move the dot vertically and which pair move it horizontally.
- You can use a mirror to watch the TV while fiddling about in back with the
- yoke wires. Once you have determined the vertical and horizontal pairs, just
- run a set of speaker wires from your stereo over to the yoke pairs and turn
- up the volume, and adjust the left-right balance until the music or radio you
- are listening to makes the screen scribble around and pulsate to the music.
-
- If you have an oscilloscope, it's even easier - just put the oscilloscope in
- X/Y mode and feed one channel of a walkman into the horizontal probe and the
- other channel (left/right channels here) into the vertical sweep probe. The
- oscilloscope will display a scribble of the music coming from the walkman.
-
- Old black and white TVs work better than color TVs for making scribble
- visions. The only requirement is that light appears on the screen when you
- turn on the TV set (that is, you can see the scanning pattern). You may have
- to adjust contrast and brightness to get the best scribble trace on the
- screen.
-
- If you are using a 'good' TV you might want to install DPDT switches to switch
- back and forth between scribble and normal TV modes. Make sure the DPDT
- switches isolate the chassis scanning signals from your stereo completely or
- you can blow things out.
-
-
- This is a diagram of the contacts on the bottom of a DPDT switch.
- Make two of these, one for the Left/Horizontal Yoke-to-Stereo
- connections and one for the Right/Vertical Yoke-to-Stereo connections.
- You only need to do this if you want to switch back and forth
- between TV and Scribblevision modes. Make SURE the Chassis wires
- will get connected to their original corresponding Yoke wires when
- the switch is flipped.
-
- |wire to Yoke Coil
- |
- ------o o o-----
- wires from chassis wires from stereo
- ------o o o-----
- |
- |wire to Yoke Coil
-
-
- You can also reverse the leads from the chassis to the yoke to make the TV
- display a mirror image or upside-down picture. Mirror reversal is convenient
- if you don't want to be forced to read adversizement graphics when they
- appear on the screen.
-
- Oh, if you watch a mono audio source in scribble-vision mode, you will just
- see a diagonal line instead of a full scribble pattern. You might have to
- adjust the tone controls on the stereo in a wierd way because bass sounds
- make larger patterns than treble sounds, but treble sounds produce more
- complex textures. Experiment around.
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