[QuadList] AVR-1 Info-LEDs replace vacuum column lights

[Peter Ford]

Hi George 

Television New Zealand use to have a total of 6 AVR1s and 6 ACR25s.  All of the machines were fitted with invisible infrared leds in the Vacuum Columns.....a mod which proved to be 100% reliable.  

However I recollect a disaster one day when a photographer from a local newspaper decided to take a picture of an ACR25 while it was on air playing a commercial break.  The flash from the camera upset the servos causing instant destruction of the tapes in both transports.

Regards

Peter Ford


>Not too long ago I had a reel servo problem on an AVR-1.  In  
> troubleshooting it I wondered if all the lamps in the Vac Cols were  
> lit.  Problem was someone had replaced the lamps with IR Led's and I  
> couldn't see a damn thing.  

>
>George Keller

      
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