Юность 401 Television Russian USSR Built 1976
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- čas přidán 15. 05. 2014
- Analyzing a 1976 USSR Russian Built Solid State Black and White TV.
Portable TV Grade 4 '' Youth '' 401 ( PT 31 IV 1) is designed to receive TV
Vision programs in DC , and when a channel selector SKD- 20 and in the UHF range.
TV - 401D '' Youth '' already has an array of SKD- 20. The model provides a good reception
at a distance of 100 km from the TV studio . It utilizes kinescope 31LK4B , angle deviation
beam of 90 °. In the scheme has AGC and AFC and AF Sensitivity TV 100 mV , clarity 400
lines , the output power of 0.75 W, the frequency band 200 ... 7100 Hz. AS consists of a five- speaker
na 0.5 DG -30 , there is the headphone jack with volume control, mute . powered by
network , battery , or any source Fri , 12 volts . power Consumption
Pot life at 30 on AC power , DC power supply 14 watts. Case Model of Place
tmassy trimmed film fine wood with metallization . Dimensions of the device
376h315h260 mm. Weight 10 kg. Price - 280 rubles. As was written in advertising : TV
Youth '' 401 '' - is your reliable companion and friend, home, on vacation , in the campaigns and expeditions. - Komedie
Hello from Bulgaria, We are very familiar with these TV sets and component packages :) I'll try to explain some things that you are doubting in the video. The earphone jack is non standard type well not any western standard it's a bit larger than 2.5mm and smaller than 3.5mm it's something in between used only in the soviet union. The antenna connectors look odd and different but they are standard, try and you'll see that they are perfectly fitting the modern antenna connectors. The big transistor on the large heatsink is as you properly guessed about the end of the video a DC voltage regulator. This TV works completely on 12 volts and when powered from the mains the's a transformer, rectifier, filter caps and a linear voltage regulator (series type) to 12 volt DC. That's the reason that it consumes almost twice the battery consumption when mains powered. The thing next to the flyback transformer in the white plastic box is as you guessed a tripler with three selenium stacks inside. All small transistors with metal colored shiny packages are a germanium transistors. They have no issues from aging (including whisker issue), they are in perfectly operating condition without any significant change in parameters till these days. Those which are painted in black paint (couple of those seen on the video) are a silicon. The power transistors are also germanium PNP type. The aluminium cylinders with radial leads are all electrolytic capacitors. 50мкф stands for 50 micro farads. Most of the axial leaded aluminium cylinders are paper-wax capacitors. The "weird" inductor close to the flyback is a horizontal linearity adjustment it has a permanent magnet next to it which can be moved for adjustment I believe that american TV sets were using the same principle. I don't know if it will synchronize to 60 Herz field frequency NTSC with or without any adjustments. The horizontal frequency is also a bit different but would cause probably less problems. I'll try with my Yunost (Youth) with a computer video card generated NTSC signal to see will it synchronize. The 401 model has only VHF tuner installed in the factory. The 401Д has the UHF tuner installed also. So this one in the video has only the VHF and the connectors and switches for UHF but the tuner is optional and obviously not installed. The VHF band is divided in 12 channels. See this article for the frequencies in USA and eastern Europe: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_channel_frequencies (the Yunost uses the eastern European standard). I see that there are coinciding frequencies on some channels so you can feed some signal from old VHF modulator. Also there is a fine tuning ring around the channel selector. The IF frequency of the set is 35 MHz (system D) and 6.5 MHz sub-carrier for the audio (system K). So I see the probable way to feed a proper signal to the set with a computer video card with TV out and an old VHF modulator. The TV card supports any standard including PAL D and with the modulator you can feed it to the set. A hint about the set: the radial electrolytics on the board are more likely to be bad. They are manufactured in Armenia (in Yerevan) and are causing problems after these years. They are developing a leakage (electrical) (or in other cases dry out and lose capacitance) and the circuit stops operating properly. So when you power it up if there are any problems keep in mind that a lot of these capacitors have to be replaced maybe. About powering up - the mains cable is plugging into the four pin socket on the back, and only two pins are used, you can easily find which of them. I hope that I have helped with this and feel free to ask any questions that you may have in the restoration process and signal feeding. Best wishes.
Thanks for the great information. Sense this video I have become much more familiar with Russian radios and transistors. I ordered a bunch of USSR Germanium transistors to use for repairing american and Japan built radios, they work very well. One day we are going to try and power this set up, I have a few Russian radios AM radios that I use and some of them had bad electrolytic caps, dryed out. Great electornics overall. Thanks for the info and you have some interesting videos, looks like we are both into tube tvs and old radios.
shango066 Yeah, There is alot of charm in the tube electronics :). Today I've tested my Yunost 603 (almost identical schematic) with 60 Hz NTFS signal. It synchronizes to it without any problem or modification. The vertical size was a bit smaller and the scan didn't covered the whole screen but only with the "vertical size" adjustment it filled the screen. So when you get this TV working the only problem with feeding signal will be the VHF modulator which you'll need. But after all you can build a simple circuit with couple of transistors for transmitting the signal to the proper frequency if you cant find anywhere such device.
Were these TV sets expensive? It says that the price was 280 Rubles, but I have no idea if that was a good price back then or not.
+YLW Pyro The prices of the electronics in the eastern block has been always relatively high. And it's normal the things back there were made to last for at least 3-4 decades not like nowadays 4-5 years max. I'm sure that the price of the electronics in the whole world has been high in these days. 280 Rubles has been something like 200 dollars which is definitely not a low price for such TV in those years and compared to the average salary in the eastern block back there. But it was transistorized and portable and with very reasonable quality, they're still working to this day. So they did sell well :).
Origoangelohrol322 oh, okay. I figured that this set was much more expensive back in the day, especially because the average person in the USSR didn't earn a whole lot of money. Thank you for the info.
I live in a former Soviet country and have been trying to restore a few of these small B/W sets from the 70s and 80s. The unit you have is remarkably clean inside for its age.
Hello thomas....... hope you are fine. i really interested in old things, if you can gift it for me.
I am damn impressed with the quality of that set. I would never have thought that they would put that great of attention to detail on a simple black and white television.
It's not a "simple b&w set", in 1976 most of the TVs there were still black and white and this particular set was closer to a high end and was very desirable and not cheap at all being able to run from both line and 12V battery (and recharge the battery!)
Most TV and Stereo sets back in the 70s were built to excellent quality this was before electronics were thought of as later made to be disposable every 90 days ;back then they were made to perform great for years. I remember back in the late 70s Dad would only buy RCA or Zenith they were built similar to this set and lasted well into the early 90s by then tv sets got better in features but worse in lifespan . I have 2 Hallicrafters shortwave /AM radios over 60 years old with original factory tubes (the factory shut down in 1971) theyre built like this set and both still work outstanding!
They were not meant to be scrapped to be replaced after just three years unlike in the capitalistic world where things are being designed with a build-in irreparable failure right after the warranty period has passed so you have to buy a new one every few years.
@@FrankHeuvelman absolutely spot on.
@@FrankHeuvelmanthat's capitalism's fault? Try even owning a TV in communism or socialism lmao.
I so love the over enginering on that set. Built to last, no cheap enginering there.
Of course, well built Russian technology.
All civil production was established on military powers, that’s where over engineering and attention to details comes from, downside of it - this small tv costed 1.5/2 avarage monthly salary.
Russian gold
@@aaravaarav5337 soviet != russian
Name is Junost
In US movies they tend to ridicule the Russia tech but it seems that they made some really hig quality electronics.
The only difference with Russian electronics is the approach. Completely different way of going about things.
For being a country that was issolated they did an outstanding job.
@Sebastian Guevara what bombs?
i have some Soviet Army Morse Code keys and headsets that still work
They must be damn rare in USA, here in Europa they still pop up sometimes. I am a big fan and collector of russian electronics !
Are you from a western country? If yes, then you should come to eastern europe bc we have a shitload of them ;)
@@shrimpfry880 Where you live ? can we contact i want to buy this TV Please reply .Thanks
he said he found this one on Ebay
@@shrimpfry880 my dad bought a Russian Selena radio from eBay years ago. I got it out of the attic a few weeks back and it's become the main radio downstairs. Gorgeous sound and aesthetics! Would love to get hold of more such things. I'm in the UK. :)
@msylvain59 I'm also fan and collector of old soviet electronics and technology.
This was fascinating. I can easily imagine that this is pretty much what it would feel like to open up a flying saucer and examine technology from another planet.
I think that you're the one who's coming from another planet
You open a TV and you travel in time and culture... amazing.
SECAM was Europe's first colour TV standard; it was used in the USSR because it was completely incompatible with PAL. It requires more band space that PAL, but doesn't suffer from colour losses associated with phase error. This set, being B/W, should be able to work with both PAL and SECAM.
douro20
It would even work with NTSC, the colour system is not important on B/W sets. The channel raster is different, but if you use UHF with continous tuning or fine tuning on VHF you can possibly receive a picture without sound.
Many european sets synchronize on 60Hz without problems.
Better european VCRs had NTSC playback on PAL-TV. If you played back a NTSC tape, the reversed the colour for every second line in phase, creating a 60Hz PAL signal, viewable on 90% of the TVs.
SECAM era il sistema francese ora digitale assieme al PAL ora multistandard col digitale
That's why SECAM was called "Especially Avoid Compatibility With the World" or "Elegant System Against Americans" in french. That failed, howervet With PAL VCR and NTSC playback.
I love all of your videos , I'm just starting to get into this hobby and I've learned lots just from watching your videos.
That thing is built like a nuclear submarine. Damn. Very cool. Would love to see it running.
Since I know some Russian, I can help you understand the functions of the controls:
Юность - means youth. "YU-NISTS"
Контр - short for contrast - Конраст - same as English
Громк - short for volume control - Громкость - "GROM-KISTS" - Loudness
ЯРК - short for brightness control - Ярукость - "YUR-KISTS"
ВКЛ - short for 'switch on' - Включение - "f-KLUCH-CHENNIE"
Юность = Younost
Громкость = Gromkost
Яркость = Yarkost
Yu-nists? I tought its Yunost
Mr. DerpyDirector hello
I am Russian and I thought i would leave some information. The TV is "named" (big letters on top) Yoonost (youth). This is kind of like a trademark, but since in USSR everything was government owened there would be no companies, but they always came up with tacky little names for products. The number after the name is the model, so there were older and newer variations with the same "name". Everything in the set would be soviet produced, and the Soviet Union had actually invented their own transistor which is slightly different from the american transistor, because they refused to take imports even though it meant a delay in catching up, and becoming solid state like the rest of the world.
It was most likely made using military parts, because they basically used surplus military parts for consumer electronics, so yes it is well built.
Делали на века! а вот программы переключать нужно было плоскогубцами, как сейчас такое детям своим объяснишь ))
+Alex Strel советской техникой просто пользоваться нельзя, за ней надо ухаживать) Раз в год смазывать переключатель каналов и никаких плоскогубцев не надо
@@MyNikolaas On the off chance it did get broken, it appears to have been designed to be serviced since all the boards are on hinges. I'm guessing that the Soviets weren't big fans of junking something if it broke.
@@twistedyogert they weren't like those wasteful capitalists that's for certain
'Look at the size of that rectifier!' (repeat x3)
When I worked as an apprentice tv repair man back in the early 1970's. Our colour tv setsthat we worked on at the time, were made for the rental market. Most back then couldnot afford to buy a colour set, because they were expensive. What I remember most about the ones we had was, that internally, the set was made up of many individual circuit boards, rather than one main motherboard, as on this Russian set. The idea behindthis was that, when a field engineer went out to fix one. Whatever the problem was witha faulty tv, the offending circuit board could be unplugged removed, and replaced withoutthe need for fault finding at the clients home. Then the faulty board was brought back tothe shop for repair. This saved the field engineer having to identify and fix the fault atthe persons home, thus saving on time and inconvenience. I believe the sets we usedback then were made by Thorn. Does anyone else remember them?
I don't know much about that part. I was a child then. But I do remember going with my dad to the local c store, where they had a machine to test the vacuum tubes.
I seem to remember back at the service repair workshop, we had a device that could be plugged directlyinto the back of the picture tube of an old set. When this was used, it somehow brought back the picturedefinition to a tired old picture tube. Has anyone else used one of these, it plugged directly into the neckat the cathode end of the tube.
Sounds similar to the Motorola/Quasar "works in a drawer" sets. I believe some Zenith sets had a similar, but maybe less ambitious, modularizeation scheme. I believe most of those schemes gave way to market forces when the price of the sets got too low, and the reliability got to high, to justify that kind of service infrastructure. As in the computer industry, having that kind of interchangeability also brought in its own can of worms, with marginal modules working in one assembly, but not another, or with the interconnections causing more trouble than they save. It was an interesting chapter in TV history, though.
@@garydunn3037 In the USA we used these "Brighteners" to raise the crt's filament voltage to brighten the dying crt cathode emission output.
@@jamesmdeluca If I remember correctly,
our bench engineers had a device that
could be plugged into the neck of the crt
to revive the picture on old crt tubes. Is
that the "Brightener" you are referring to?
It will accept 110v! Soviet components are crude but durable. Soviet plastics, however, are very brittle and fragile. Really nice set!
Really really cool set! You can tell that consumerism had nothing to do with that thing's design. Built like tank! Please do a power up as soon as you can!
28:19 At the bottom it is written: Price 280 Rub. In 1976, 1 Rub. was $ 1.31. Calculate the price of it. ($366.8 !!!)
i worked for mastercare in the 80's and we used to repair russian vega tvs and they were military quality although getting parts was difficult
I found that exact model TV in an old abandoned garage. It was sitting there for 20+ years. I took it home, cleaned off the dust from the inside, plugged it in and it worked just fine. You can run it from mains (220V here in germany) or use a special battery-pack. With the long antenna you had a pretty good reception, before they shut off the analog TV here.
Back in the GDR and the USSR all consumer products were built like a tank and were easy to service, because they were expensive and they did not make enough for all the people. You would not just buy a new one, because there were no new ones available, so you fixed it or have it fixed.
I like to repair old stuff from that era, because you can do everything yourself quite easily.
I miss the МЛТ resistors so much :(
So much easier to just directly read values instead of color-coding...
nah it's not if you remember the colors the reason why they color code them is because if the resistor bakes it's more likely to be able to read colors than the numbers.
Маркировка резистора была удобная, но вот паять резисторы МЛТ, которые долго полежали, была проблема. СССР был столь богат, что выводы резисторов покрывал серебром! Серебряное покрытие окислялось и плохо паялось.
So I'm not the only one who finds the stripes a little annoying.
@@harshnemesis If there was a doubt I'd put a meter on it.
Actually that was the only thing I didn't like about the construction in this tv. Colour coded resistors can be read most of the time from any angle at a glance
well done the TV, better than they do in America,
In the USSR, channel 2 used a video carrier frequency of 59.25 MHz. You will likely have to adjust the fine tuning to obtain the best picture. You will not have any sound, as the TV expects the audio carrier to be 6.5 MHz above the video carrier. The audio carrier may, in fact, lead to severe interference to the picture.
That TV looks to be made of some pretty heavy duty stuff. Lots of Russian made military surplus electronics are popular with hobbyists.
Looks brand new.
never seen a Russian TV, I only see cassette players, or radios, as Selena, but they still look pretty. Their look is a reason for which I started to like electronics.
I'm surprised how over built this thing is they spared no expense on parts and workmanship.
Nice wire weave / dressing. 👍🏻
Btw it looks like the whole set was designed around the packages of parts available. As if there might have been only one type of package available for each component. The workmanship ship is very good. Especially the flip down board
It's not cccp as you spell it. It is cyrillic letter and transform it in Latin english it said SSSR or soviet union.
That really is a very nice TV! So clean on the inside and so massively overengineered. And we used to make fun of the Soviets back in the day saying that they had inferior products than the U.S. This TV is way better than any Philco ever was. Very, very interesting to see.
Shango do another video on this one power it up cool set!
This is a very well built set. CCCP is Russian. That rectifier is huge ! Those transistors could be Germanium. Those boards are very clean.
Interesting that some information is bi-langual and some not.
RODALCO2007 germanium?! RUSH 🅱!!!
CCCP = SSSR = Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik. Stud mount diodes, probably way oversized ;-) I have some huge old 600A stud mount diodes at home from some old welder ;-) The transistors are almost 100% germaniums, they look like P series transistors.
Германий, германий! Там все транзисторы pnp германиевые, а npn кремниевые - КТ315.
В СССР, в то время, транзисторы npn были дефицит, до появления транзистора КТ315, можно сказать - революционного появления.
"Stud mount diodes" - всего на 10А ! Хоть и кремниевый.
Транзистор П416Б - pnp германиевый, высокочастотный. Такие же транзисторы использовались в флагманском компьютере СССР - БЭСМ-6.
That workmanship is so refreshing. You very rarely see that outside of industrial and super high end applications anymore. It's sad how far backwards we've gone with penny pinching in an overly inflated economy.
well built!!!!!
Man hope you pull this out again some day and do a power up video on it.
Those bridge diodes remind me of some military grade ones I've seen at bgmicro as surplus stock and those where rated at 20 amps each. Very interesting video ty
halfway through I was like TURN IT ON TUN IT on .
Really Impressive set, Well built,good quality ,nice collector piece.
Beautiful Russian tv set. Also happy new year.
It's said as Junost. The headphone jack is probably 2,5mm if I remember correctly. It was the military organisation (OTK) that permitted those units for sale.
DjResR OTK = Q.C. Passed in Russian
The Russians sure knew how to make a quality tv
Only color ones
Astonishing quality, like something that one would expect from NASA
Hi from the UK. In the 70's the USSR was exporting a lot of Hifi and Tv equipment to us. The Cyrillic on the front is probably Rigonda which was the brand name they were sold under here in the UK. Its a good job you didn't power it up as on a mains A/C supply, Whole it has different voltages, its only for a 50Hz Mains supply so it wouldn't have liked your USA 60Hz mains frequency. The UHF/VHF TV Receiver was known as a Dual standard TV. We had them here in the UK for years, primarily UHF at 625 lines was for BBC 2 and BBC 1 and ITV was VHF 405 lines. Somewhere there must be a switch to move between VHF and UHF. The outer ring of the channel changer is probably for VHF channels and the inner ring will be the UHF Tuner
Its quite likely also operable on 12Volts DC so you could use it on a boat or in a car or caravan.
The Mains Voltages across Europe could vary say between 110 and 240 volts A/C but always at 50Hz
There is no problem when you connect 50Hz device to 60Hz mains. Only the voltage must be the same - in this TV you can switch to 110V. This TV set is VHF only. For UHF you need another tuner, look at this: watch?v=h5JgqVzNWEA
schwarzalben88 Are you sure? I mean, I'd imagine that the power transformer would work fine, and the frequency wouldn't matter after it went through the rectifier, but would it not mess up the flyback and related circuitry?
If the power supply in set use only transformer and simple rectifier, you can use it with no problem. Because after rectifier, you have DC output regardless of input power mains frequency. So it cannot mess flyback and other circuits, because circuits "don't know" about it. It's the same DC like when you connect it to battery. Only the voltage must be correct. Before switching power supply was used, you could buy simple 220V/110V transformer to connect US equipment to european mains. Frequency doesn't matter unless equipment don't use it - for example in Europe there were clocks driven directly by 50Hz. If you connect this clock in US to 110V>220V tranformer, they will work, but run too fast. Only if the set use thyristor rectifiers, there could be problem, because they use phase shift circuits designed for mains frequency.
In this case you can see in 18:03, that this TV is designed for 50/60Hz mains. czcams.com/video/FQMjPzXLC5k/video.htmlm3s
Soviet Union electronics were usually built extremely well with high quality components because it was made to last, Socialist command economy under Socialism were disgusted upon the very idea of the fact that stuff was made to not last.
Soviet light bulbs lasted twice as long as western light bulbs, just an example of this mentality.
North Koreans continued to make CRT televisions well into 2016, they made copies of Philips and Sony Triniton, I love to go there and buy a Sony Triniton copy, North Koreans make extremely well made electronics from the video footage I have seen of their factory assembly lines.
Cool I did not know that North Corea made CRTs in modern days :) fantastic bless them :)
When it came to light bulbs, the longer-lasting bulbs were not any technological breakthrough.
It is a trade off between efficiency and lamp life.
Longer filament -> more resistance, less light, higher cost for electricity, longer life.
Shorter filament -> less resistance, lower cost for electricity, brighter and whiter light.
@@1L6E6VHF funny thing is I remember my dad who worked for Sears back around 1987 I found one of his reflector work lamps had a lightbulb in it that said made in Poland.( How it got across the iron curtain all the way to the US is a mystery) I knew most of Europe used 220v AC but I remember it worked on 120volts us but it was actually dimmer than a 40 watt us bulb. It seemed like it was only 5 watts ! i think it only lasted less than 2 years .
@@waverider227
Trade relationships between "Western" and "Eastern"/Soviet Bloc" nations were not as prohibitive as one would think.
Back in the late seventies, I was seriously considering ordering a Soviet-made $90 single-lens-reflex camera from a camera store in Manhattan.
An American or Japanese SLR cost three times that.
It sure would have been interesting to see this set powered up.
Very beautiful TV set I love it👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
25:55 That's a logo of the Московский радиотехнический завод (Mos-kovs-kij Ra-di-o-teh-nee-ches-kij Za-vod) Moscow Radio-technical Plant where this TV was made.
What I have saw at the back of the TV is that it can operate on 110, 127, 220, and 237 volts of electricity. We had an imported Stereo which can operates on four voltages, same as what that TV has, but the tricky part is you need a cord and an adapter to plug on the pins. The pins corresponds to the voltages you want to operate the set and if you made a wrong connection on the pins to the mains, you might damage the set if you plugged the set on the wrong voltage.
Its brand in english is Youth 401
I love the wiring harnesses. There's nothing as nice as the hand tied looms.
During late 70's, the UK had an influx of Russian made 'RIGONDA' TV's and radios. Made by 'Mashpriborintorg' as I recall.
I had a 9" B/W set, 'Rigonda Starlet' that had a chassis almost exactly the same as this set above, but externally quite different.
One thing I remember--It had a razor-sharp and excellent picture in comparison with all the British portable TV junk and cheapo Chinese crap around!
It had UHF tuner and 625 line, 6MHz sound chassis for UK market.
Mashpriborintorg was the export state department of the USSR. Rigonda radios, if they were the huge tube set with record player and separate loudspeakers, were "the Rigonda Bolshoï Stereo Multiplex" Those were made by VEF RRR (Riga Radio Rupnica) in Latvia. The brand still exist today as Radiotehnika.
An other RRR radios exported that I know is the Riga 103. I don't know of other sets exported, but maybe the USSR had different policies for different markets, and maybe for the UK they named all of their products Rigonda.
I never heard of Rigonda TV. Here (France) we had the Euromatic 405, also sold as Silalis and Shiljalis 405. Those were smaller TV that the one in this video, with a 10" screen.
Another one sold here was the Electronika C443, originaly an Elektronika model. It was color and came (on the French market at least) with an added SCART input and a remote.
Maybe they renamed all of those Rigonda for you, but it seems liek they didn't bothered so much in France, most of the time we had generic names like all the "Signal" radio, and most of the time just the original Russian name translated (Sokol...)
Mashpriborintorg stands for Machine Appliance International Trade (organization).
I too, living in the UK, had a portable b/w Rigonda tv in the 70's. It had a red casing and was very reliabe and worked for years. The picture it gave was pin sharp. An excellent little set all round.
Here in the UK we had the Russian sets and the very first one was a tiny portable set, i think it was a 7" battery and mains set, and yes it was i pig to get a sound out of it without a picture, well done.
I know those small Russian TVs in the UK, were sold as Rigonda. Imported by Technical and Optical(TOE) in London. Who also imported the Zenit(USSR) and Practica(GDR) SLR cameras
You really have to find a way to turn this on :D.
Wow, is that thing overbuilt! I've always heard Soviet consumer electronics were very expensive, now I see why.
I swore the fuse compartment said 50/60hz. Even though it's on the Secam/palD system and the channels might not line up, would you be able to adjust the vertical and horizontal hold till it lined up for the video signal?
"The Baltic states" were three of the 15 Socialist States that made the USSR. Some of the electronics plants that made the TVs like that were located in those Baltic States.
Please make a video on powering on this TV and trying to make it display a picture!
Ever try powering this one up yet?
Czechoslovakia at the time it still existed, was using 220V @50Hz mains, same for Yugoslavia and "Baltic nations". As far as I know only the US and I think also Japan (and some Latin American countries) used and still uses 110V @60Hz mains power. Anyways, great video, also, it's kind of strange to me to watch you being surprised and amazed at something I've seen many times around in various trash yards etc, taking these TVs apart for spare components (as a kid), but at the same time I do understand that you haven't got to see such TVs before as the Eastern Block was very isolated from the rest of the world. Keep up good stuff!
Canada uses 110/60 as well
+fantom58 Yes, I took Canada so obvious I forgot to mention it, I kinda included it into the US internally. I know Canada is not the same tho, I rather meant it geographically.
Japan is 100v but uses either 50 or 60Hz depending on region.
Yes, Czechoslovakia and all eastern block use 220V/50Hz. But there were some small regions where 110V (127V in Russia)/50Hz was used. Because they were connected to old generator or the part of city was electrified in 1920-1930 and powered from local factory/power plant. Even in Prague 110V was used in part of old town.
LOL My mother is Czechoslovakian. :)
built Soviet tough. I wonder if they build consumer electronics any more, or is everything from China. Rusmart. love all the wire harness, and major overkill looking power parts. Looks like all precison resistors, I bet the filter caps are good still too.
Not in Latvia. It's all gone 😭😭😭
> I wonder if they build consumer electronics any more
Yes, but in a very limited numbers. It is super difficult to compete with China.
However there is a lot of consumer electronic design bureaus in Russia, working for mostly OEM and local brands (for example Redmond or Kit Fort), but also working for (owned by) some multinational brands, including Samsung, Texas Instruments, Intel, Rockwell, etc.
They also have electronic component industry, including 28nm silicon chip fabs, but it is mostly super expensive, and used mostly for governmental or military users.
@@clouster75 Good idea to keep that supply chain local even if it may cost a bit more. Global economies have down sides without even playing fields. Not saying has to be total isolation but should be considered before losing all manufacturing ability.
That's a really cool set. The simulated wood grain around the face of the CRT is unusual, but then again there's nothing ordinary about this one. Not for us Westerners, anyway.
That's an impressive set, wax string bundling wires, extra heavy duty.
The Cyrillic script at the top of the set reads (phonetically) Yu-Nost- 401, I believe.
Also, this TV, I think, was made in Bulgaria.
USSR not Bulgaria :)
I like your videos because I never saw here in Europe a valve colour TV. Here only the black and white TVs were using tubes, than at the 70's they were black and white and colour TVs at the market but all using transistors.
No, I even had a 1972 Loewe colour set with tubes. Colour started in Germany back in 1967. All colour sets then had tubes.
In Soviet Russia, television builds you!
This makes me sad. Things aren't built like this anymore. If you buy a TV today, if it doesn't break within three years, it's going to try connecting to a service that is no longer available by then just to interrupt your viewing with pop-up ads. Navigating menus with the remote now takes longer than getting up and using the buttons on the set itself, and then you can't control everything. Sit on the remote and you'll have to throw the TV itself out with it.
And if you don't want to pay for more features that distort the picture quality, you'll have to pay more anyway for the ability to even turn such features off.
And when people buy a $50 BD player for their $200 TV, they are tricked into buying a $100 HDMI cable as well, with claims of differences in picture quality aspects that mathematically cannot be affected.
TV's won't be built like that ever again.
+ZacabebOTG
Haha! Exactly.
A name brand TV nowadays is far better and far more reliable than one from the 60s-70s at least in the USA. Even a small color TV was absurdly expensive by today's standards, would often go out of adjustment, and tubes would burn out. But broadcast signals are a thing of the past so you have cable or dish bills. As for cables, anyone who pays lots of $$ for a hdmi or optical cable is a fool
in soviet Russia TV watches you !
+fantom58 the gold digital cables transmit better digital signals.
maybe for that short distance what about the rest of the signal path ? besides a CRT TV is far better the colours are very close to the primary colours if you could see an analogue picture in HD on a CRT you wouldn't want to look at a modern flat screen anymore
I saw a ussr commercial for that tv somewhere on youtube before they screwed everything up with copyrights and commercialism lol just like communist ussr please fire up that old tank its great.
That is the best build quality I have ever seen. Simply insanely over-engineered for durability.
I was thinking the same thing, they wanted your great great great grandchildren to inherit that thing and still be able to get a tune up if it even needed one...
Yunost pronounced Yoo nost
My ex had one of these that blew up and I carried it out of the apartment in the FSU. The metal scrappers were on it very quickly after I put it in the trash :)
The Russians really built their TV's and Stereo equipment out of military parts. They did not like cheap junk stuff... so they really built them.
Был в молодости такой, даже до сих пор где то есть))
Я подобный телик использовал в качестве монитора для микропроцессорного контроллера с самодельной видеокартой (64 символа в строке). ~1986г.
Did you ever get this to work? Would be interesting to mod it for NTSC reception.
Oh wow! I grew up with this one. I mean.. I'm not that old, we just used one of these in the 90s.
Is that twine for the cable management? Very tidy.
Interesting mix of good and bad in here. Mostly good, though I wonder how these big parts would eat up energy.
It's 110 volts, but 50 hertz. I would think 12 volts DC is a better bet. Be careful.
In USSR all 15 republics had 50Hz 220V mains, except couple of some eastern Asian ones(127V). 110, 127 Volts mainly was used for export.
Would be cool if you could take it out again and try to turn it on.
Greetings from Germany. The russian letters spell "Junost" (spelled like jew-nost). In the eastern part of gerrmany these sets were very popular due to their low price compared to local products (which would have been RFT), so we still have a lot of those. Another popular TV was the Raduga 706, which was one of the first soviet colour tvs. It was well known for bursting into flames suddenly and having a lot of hard to get tubes.
Hello sir i want to ask a question about red mercury tubes
Which tv's and radios contains red mercury Tubes
Junost, is that the pronunciation? Love those laced wiring looms.
Yunost', meaning "young" or "youthful"
Ant chance were gonna see a power up on this set? Very interesting
I just now found this video. I know it is old but I am totally impressed with the quality in the construction of this set. Dare I say that they were ahead of the curve during the time period they built this? Cool video and again wow nice find. I bet that set will work with minimum problems. Oh and by the way where did you get the adapter for your bt modulator? The 72 ohm video in converted to rca. I can't find that anywhere. I had to home brew a connector. It works put is not a solid connection. Just thought I would ask.
It is not CCCP actually is SSSR, Russians write in Cyrillic
Re phosphor colours, in the UK, I remember a Ferguson 21 inch colour set - earlyish transistor mid 70s of which I had two. One had a dark phosphor appearance, which I thought would be better for blacks, whilst the other had a much lighter colour - not safety glass related. The lighter one gave what seemed a much more vibrant picture? Both tubes were good.
These were exported to East Germany as the "Junost" brand.
at 12.05 its a capacitor k50 series known for going bad 50 microfarad prob 16 or 25 volts ,known for going death short,near is a 200 microf ,the big one, russian use 500 insted off 470 , 200 , int off 220 , 50 ins 47 ,20 ins 22 ,10 is 10 ,5 is 4.7 , 2 ins 2.2 . for ex 200mk 50b is a 220 micro 50 volts
The jack marked Accum may be short for Accumulator, another term for battery
One thing I notice was how large and heavy duty all of the components seem to be,compared with sets made in Japan, Europe and the USA.
that was not heavy duty. that was the only duty available;) . in soviet times there was a problem with miniaturization and efficiency. planned economy does that to you. whoever says things about how russians invented stuff by themselves do not know what they are talking about. I have met people who are still alive and worked in reverse engineering of western technology (computer chipsets mainly, I think they actually had and have best reverse engineering and cloning facilities there). the data then was sent somewhere in russia and sometimes it showed up as soviet inventions (when not in the military stuff) . hard drives for space exploration developed in some occupied state universities? no credit, it is russian!
I have a small portable soviet tv called a "Rigonda". It's turquoise blue, and has the same plate on the back with the lightening bolt symbol and made in USSR. It goes ok but the signal is odd, and even putting an RF into the antenna plug is very wavy and distorted, but it looks cool anyway. Each component inside is really old style and even the speaker has a neat little soviet type logo on it. No idea how it came to be in New Zealand.
It's just like American/Japanese/Etc... TV's and radios. They all had some great ideas. They all had some bad ideas. Too bad they couldn't have worked together. Peace.
This weird jack is neither 3.5mm, nor 2.5mm. It is a special soviet Ш2П connector which was commonly used in headphones and consumer radios. 5-pin DIN connectors were used for linear I/O.
Привет.эта.наша.саветская.техника.помню.
You very well might get a picture. The line rate is very close (15625Hz vs. 15634Hz).
Video modulation negative as in USA.
Audio won't work, but you might be able to hear the audio by placing a shortwave radio, tuned to 6500kHz, by the set.
POWER IT UP!
Seems really clean for it's age.
ЮНОСТЬ [YUNOST] YUNOSTь
ь-soft sign. t-pronounced softly. But without the softening sign "ь" the words do not lose their meaning. There is a dividing soft sign, it is also written "ь", lives in the center of the word)) Without a separator "ь", the word becomes not very clear🍿😺👍 Amazing tv! I like)
so japan,western europe ,america and canada have the same electronics parts (transistors ,condenser,resistors ) and share the same parts whereas russian has their own electronic parts ???am i right about that ?i mean you can fit russian parts with any western models?please i need an answer
Wish things were made this well now, New TV good for 3 to 5 years if your lucky, this is built like a tank.
In east germany, soviet TVs from the Raduga brand very quite common. These were the cheapest colour set you could get. However, they would easily get bad and even burn down due to heat issues.
I’m surprised how well built that is considering the reputation of soviet civilian goods
Yeah, ignorant reputation from westerners who just absolutely had to feel superior.
Sad that the Quality went down the Hill like that. Last Year I got a 1976 Telefunken PalColor Set from Work. The Customer used it until 2016. Only the HV Cascade for the Flyback died, that's why I got it. Hopefully I will get some more TVs when they turn off Analog Cable here in Germany this summer.
Im not familiar with russian TVs, but actually it was standard that european Sets were built like that, even the small ones were very reliable and service Friendly.
The brand in English is "Youth" and it sounds like (similarly) the two words together "you-must"
"Юность" Translates into "Youth" (google translator so it might not be accurate)
Youthful
the Translation is YUNOSTI... Is Like a Brand Name.
Did you ever try powering this one up yet?