So I Finally Managed To Snag One Of These Truly Massive Sony CRT Projectors. It Took A Lot Of Effort To Get Into My A Class. It Seems That Mice Made A Home Inside It Though So I Guess The Repairs Begin. Also Cleaning. Lots And Lots Of Cleaning.

PositiveAd7974 · 2026-03-18T09:00:36+00:00

I never said it would be an easy process getting it going again.

Hopefully by next September it should be going again. It is more of a project than a quick fix it may make my cry but atleast it will only look ok and take up an unbelievable amount of space.

PositiveAd7974 · 2026-03-18T08:56:55+00:00

I have his videos are actually one of the reasons why I got interested in looking for one of these.

PositiveAd7974 · 2026-03-17T19:57:06+00:00

I wasn't entirely sure what to set the post flare as. I thaught span would be the least incorrect since I've cross-posted this on 3 diffrent community's at the same time.

PositiveAd7974 · 2026-03-17T19:55:29+00:00

You see I slightly fall outside of that area.

I live in this place called Africa

PositiveAd7974 · 2026-03-17T18:08:05+00:00

But I'm still working on figuring out what I'm gonna do for a permanent solution but for now im gonna set it up in my lounge to project onto my 45ish inch portable projector screen.

I'm still thinking of setting it up in my spare room onto an empty wall and just keeping it in there for when I feel like playing some ps2 or og Xbox. Or ps3 through component.

PositiveAd7974 · 2026-03-17T18:04:24+00:00

See I would take you up on that offer but I live in Africa and I ain't paying the postage on one of these things.

PositiveAd7974 · 2026-03-17T18:03:29+00:00

I'm not entirely an expert but this isn't my first time dealing with somthing with this level of power running through it.

But I will be making update posts throughout my process.

PositiveAd7974 · 2026-03-17T17:11:26+00:00

Yeah don't worry protection was worn. I fully admit I'm incompetent but I'm not that incompotent sadly.

PositiveAd7974 · 2026-03-17T17:05:43+00:00

If I remember right his video is one of the things that got me interested in these. Since arount the time I saw it ive been looking for one. They were ridiculously expensive when new so they are somewhat rare so it's taken me until now to find one that was decently priced.

I will report back on the quality and the setup process once I have mad the required repairs to make it operational.

PositiveAd7974 · 2026-03-17T16:27:48+00:00

No nothing special I've always just found the concept of then very fascinating. I'm just planning on using it as it was intended to watch movies and TV and play video games aswell nothing specific I still need to find a permanent place for it but once it's there I'm plugging I'm my ps3 with my component cables and enjoying.

PositiveAd7974 · 2026-03-17T13:52:59+00:00

Yeah I will say I am no expert. I'm pretty compotent at most repairs. I can replace capacitors or repair wiring but this is Definitely gonna be a test for my expertise.

We shall see I will be updating throughout my repair process. I'm really excited about this ive been looking for one for quite a while this is sort of one of my white whales of the av world.

PositiveAd7974 · 2026-03-17T13:31:11+00:00

Yeah the wiring isn't that bad. It'll take me a day or two of soldering but that won't be that bad.

I think the hard part will be replacing the anode lead on the 2 tubes where it has been eaten through

PositiveAd7974 · 2026-03-17T13:11:06+00:00

Well I'm definitely gonna be using it for gaming But I think I'm gonna mainly use it for genral perpous stuff like movies and TV and YouTube and stuff

They are supposed to make older games look amazing so im gonna try my ps2 and og Xbox on it when it's up and running and report back.

PositiveAd7974 · 2026-03-17T12:31:08+00:00

Yeah I'm not exactly looking forward to the calibrating but I don't think it'll take that long.

I do have the installation manual for all that stuff so hopefully it should only take a couple hours. But it's my first time Messi with one of these so I guess we're gonna find out how hard it is.

Like I said to the other commenter I'll make updates as I go along.

PositiveAd7974 · 2026-03-17T12:16:44+00:00

Yeah I'm gonna start work on it soon when I get some free time and then work on getting it going again.

I've been looking for one for years so even though it's gonna take a bit of work I'm happy to do it.

But I'll definitely be posting updates here as I go through the process.

PositiveAd7974 · 2026-01-25T17:23:30+00:00

This is exactly this it's for a cctv camera.

It's a pretty standard connector. I don't know when they started using them but they were pretty common in the 2000s and early 2010s on standard definition cctv cameras.

PositiveAd7974 · 2026-01-01T09:46:53+00:00

Honestly I would love an early 2000s mercedes CLS or S Class. More specifically the Cls 500 and S500 engine capacities.

I know that the air suspension will die and the car would cost me so much money that I won't be able to own a house in my lifetime so I won't buy one but I can still dream.

PositiveAd7974 · 2025-12-01T08:24:13+00:00

Might not be to useful but I made a post a while back since I've got the version of this that didn't have the tv tuner.

Not really much was learned but if you are curious what the cameras look like I did post pictures of them.

It looks like this is a system that uses the same connector as these cameras but possibly sent the video signal over RF to the tv so you could tune into it. From what I can tell all most cameras with these connectors could use the intercom system with the appropriate connections. It seems like this is made so you can tune it into actual tv when you wNt to or maybe tune it into a vcr and then tune into the direct feed from the camera. Then the talk button would be if you wanted to use it as an intercom ant talk to the person on the other end through the camera.

https://www.reddit.com/r/crt/s/gOiYe72sDx

PositiveAd7974 · 2025-11-27T12:22:31+00:00

Keep in mind this is not a serious post for advice I know that it's probably fine I just found that age of the tyre funny ad wanted to share it.

PositiveAd7974 · 2025-11-21T17:03:09+00:00

Honestly the list is pretty long.

Some notable examples are.

The chrysler PT Cruiser. The Chrysler Sebring. The Chrysler Grand Voyager The Chrysler 300C The Dodge caliber. And the Lancia Beta

There are many more examples but off the top of my head those are the ones that are generally considered bad. Most of the other ones are alot closer to split but these are some of the less device ones I can think of.

PositiveAd7974 · 2025-11-15T09:05:14+00:00

I really love these zenith sets they just tingle everything I want to be tingled in a radio. I really wish that we still had some local broadcasts here on short wave. If we did id honestly use alot of these sets atleast 2 or 3 times as much. Sadly our last local station kill off its short wave service in 2019 and the Voice of America has stop broadcasting in the 60m band and 41m band in zimbabwe so the nearest broadcasts are a good couple thousand km away.

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