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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.
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?
Wouter
Dust!
Other goodies!
Wow!
Great find, maybe some good dusting would do and some glass cleanning spray can take the outside?
Does it work?
Wouter: 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. 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!
Vintage Bang & Olufsen
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?
The connectors and connections look like this:
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.)
--mika
tournedos: 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...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9hgeynm1wu8g7yi/IMG_3984.jpg?dl=0
I think this is what Mika meant.
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...
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
Dillen: 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
Thank you Martin! Can I just connect the coax cable to the center connection?
-edit- The center of the connector does not connect to anything, so it has to be connected to the right or the left one but which?
Well, the inputs (and connectors) were designed for use with twin-lead antenna-cable, typically used for dipolesso there's not really a ground and a signal lead, they are both rather floating so I suggest you just go ahead and try differentways to connect to see what works the best. Inner lead on one pin, shielding on the other.As mentioned earlier in this thread, the RF signal from a settop box is quite strong so I almost dare say that youwill get a signal pretty much either way you connect it - as long as we are talking about UHF.You cannot damage anything.
Dillen: Well, the inputs (and connectors) were designed for use with twin-lead antenna-cable, typically used for dipolesso there's not really a ground and a signal lead, they are both rather floating so I suggest you just go ahead and try differentways to connect to see what works the best. Inner lead on one pin, shielding on the other.As mentioned earlier in this thread, the RF signal from a settop box is quite strong so I almost dare say that youwill get a signal pretty much either way you connect it - as long as we are talking about UHF.You cannot damage anything. Martin
Thank you very much Martin. Damaging something was my biggest concern. I won't be using a settop box but the analoge cable signal but this is UHF as well as VHF (the different channels are between 170 MHz and 780 MHz). On other televisions the reception is always strong so hopefully it will work.
I'll try it tomorrow and keep you updated with the results.
I works great! Thanks a lot!
I'm thinking about adding something like this to be able to watch Mad Men in style!
Fantastic picture, combining some true design icons there. These old TVs are often just chucked out nowadays so it is so refreshing to see one in use like that.
Very good result!Any chance of a photo of the upper part of the rolling stand?I am talking about the part that mates with the TV - maybe just a photo from below.
Dillen: Very good result!Any chance of a photo of the upper part of the rolling stand?I am talking about the part that mates with the TV - maybe just a photo from below. Martin
Ofcourse, I will make some pictures tomorrow!
An unusual but great find. Even better that it is black and white.
Here you go!
It`s a pity that only little information about some things is available. Maybe we should start a thread where anyone with "rare" pieces can contribute a description and/or pictures to update the product pages.
Thanks for the excellent photos.I was wondering if the same stand, or at least its metal parts, was also used also for the open reel Beocords.The bottom part with the wheels is the same but the top seems to be different.
I was also wondering this, as these TVs (although rare in the UK now) are at least available sometimes, whereas the Beocord undercarriage I posted about a few months ago is like you said Martin very rare indeed.
Similar, but not identical then!
I just love this tv and the 600. I'm hoping to find one here in Canada that someone may have brought over with them! Nice find...
Guy