PACO E-400 joins the lineup...

[K7SGJ]

I used to have one of those when I worked on TVs back in the day, too. I think E200 was the companion RF generator. When we got the B&K 415, I thought I'd died and gone to TV repairman heaven.

[AE1PT]

I used to have one of those when I worked on TVs back in the day, too. I think E200 was the companion RF generator. When we got the B&K 415, I thought I'd died and gone to TV repairman heaven.

The E-200-C was indeed the matching sine wave signal generator.

I know exactly what you speak with the b&k 415. Most of the shops had one. Perfect signals every time. Coupled with a b&k 1250 NTSC generator, fine stuff! I thought it could not get any better until I opened my own shop and a sweet talking Sencore rep sold me a VA48. That thing did everything except collect money from the customer...

You gonna stuff a small DTV converter inside those restored sets for a small up-charge?

Doing that with one of the old UHF set top converter boxes would really be appropriate!

[NQ6U]

[...]I opened my own shop and a sweet talking Sencore rep sold me a VA48. That thing did everything except collect money from the customer...

There's a used VA48 selling for eighty-five bucks on Amazon right now.

[K7SGJ]

The E-200-C was indeed the matching sine wave signal generator.

I know exactly what you speak with the b&k 415. Most of the shops had one. Perfect signals every time. Coupled with a b&k 1250 NTSC generator, fine stuff! I thought it could not get any better until I opened my own shop and a sweet talking Sencore rep sold me a VA48. That thing did everything except collect money from the customer...



Doing that with one of the old UHF set top converter boxes would really be appropriate!

I used the Sencores in later life, as well. You could do a complete alignment from stem to stern in less time than it took to get the Precision, or the B&K for that matter, hooked up, stabilized, and all the fucking cables rounded up and/or fixed. Seems like one or two were always broken right at the clip or ez hook, usually from hanging off the alignment cart and being stepped on. Built in bias supplies, so you didn't have to try to locate PS sources for the tuner and IF agc circuits. And 3.58 circuits were now a walk in the park to align, and repeatable. That was the thing about Sencore, they directed their service equipment to the service industry, and didn't try to branch out in to a shit load of other markets like B&K Dynascan. I still have some very nice, later mfg Sencore stuff for AV and such. Their capacitor/inductor, and transformer/coil analyzers/ringers are very handy and very accurate.