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Apple M1296 Drawings

Gary C

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Anyone have circuit diagrams of the Apple Mac II monitor M1296 ?

I have two to fix and have been scouring the ether looking for them with no success.

Cheers.
 
So

First observation is no glow in the neck (can be hard to see, but I can see it fine on the working one), but that I have 24KV under the cap, so flybacks occuring.

Managed to trace the Tubes model number (AT12A9SLB22) to a website listing adapters to fit to a tube regenerator. Tracing adapter A8 gave me the following neck pinout for Base type B10-277
Then with much searching (amazing how hard it is to find CRT info) to a pinout of

5 G1
6 Green K
7 G2
8 Red K
9 Heater 2
10 Heater 1
11 Blue K
12 G4

So heater checked and loop resistance is fine.

Checking on the flyback transformer 334P0311 gives me a HR 46097 and the circuit diagram checked against the pins, getting a 20V peak waveform on the heater supply pin 5. Loop checked to the neck socket and seems ok but a small resistance. Gave everything a clean and reassembled.
Got the glow back :)
Turned up brightness and the first 1/3rd of the picture is stretched, then a bright line, then a wibbly but otherwise normal picture.

While its not mine, it appears exactly like this one

DeadRGB.jpg


Everyone that I have researched has then just done a capacitor replacement, mainly C418, so without a circuit diagram, I am forced into almost random 'recapping' (ooh I hate that phrase). At least it will keep me busy.
 
So a bunch of electrolytics replaced. There was a lot of leakage around those directly under the tube so at least one has failed.

All plugged together and now I get a nice, stable image.

There is a scratch on the CRT though :( will try the car windscreen scratch fillers. Will be interesting to see if they work.
 
Second unit just needed adjustments. Was wildly out on horizontal and vertical syncs and I think someone had been trying to get it to work but hadn't gone through it step by step, though it was odd in that a simple tweak of horizontal sync would make the picture stable but it wouldn't resync when it was turned off then on.
Followed the repair guide and now looking good :)

So thats two working monitors for my LC & IICi.
 
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