Sinclair TV80

[Oloturia]

In a second hand flea market I found this beauty.


The CRT seems faulty, it projects a deformed image. There are no analog channels available anyway, perhaps it could be connected to a digital receiver, somehow.

[spider]

Good find!

Usual caveats about CRT safety. It might be small but it will still potentially pack a potentially nasty punch (as will capacitors)

Regarding input, well I suppose there's the option of using the Spectrums RF out straight in -if- that TV has an external antenna/aerial socket.

I suspect it would not be hard to hardwire a socket into the tuner area to accept composite video but I'm taking a wild guess on this.

Regarding the image output as it is, its a bit beyond my area sorry. It could I suppose be dislodged deflection coils, a fault on the amplifier or merely in need of a H or V adjustment.

[Oloturia]

Yeah, I prefer not to fix it by myself because of my clumsiness and fear of electric shock (the label says that some components goes up to 2400 Volts!).

Anyway it turns on and it's possible to hear two or three radio stations, how weird.

[Nitrowing]

I had a photo of mine connected to my ZX somewhere

[Seven.FFF]

I heard that you could touch the tip of a Speccy RF lead to the aerial, and it would give a passable picture. Obviously not if you’ve done the composite mod.

[Nitrowing]

I heard that you could touch the tip of a Speccy RF lead to the aerial, and it would give a passable picture. Obviously not if you’ve done the composite mod.

Yeah, that's all I did

[Juan F. Ramirez]

Playing Spectrum games on a real Spectrum with that TV must be the 'final level' for any Spectrum fan

[Nitrowing]

Playing Spectrum games on a real Spectrum with that TV must be the 'final level' for any Spectrum fan

As there are no analogue TV signals, this was my "solution" to test that my TV80 and MTV1 were functinal - the Sinclair Research text is minute