Best Circuit Diagrams

[Paula A]

I got on with Thorn as well. Especially the way their "yellow" tv books had a very useful schematic you could pin on the wall behind the bench (I did a LOT of 1500's and 3500's)

I think Panasonic and Sony made by far the worst.. tiny print, unfathomable and non existent test points and so many revisions in manufacture that anything except a dawn release model bore virtually no resemblance to the papers whatsoever!!

[pwdrive]

Hello Paula, Thorn were OK, we used to have all the usual manufactures diagrams stuck individually on large cardboard sheets, usually cut out from the side of a ctv box. I too worked on lots of 1500's. 3500's etc.
Sony made a lot of good stuff but as you say the Japanese diagrams weren't the best. Their insruction books were even worse.
I worked for Sony abroad and we used to receive new stock to test etc before it was distributed throught the country, there "literal" translation into English/French was sometimes appaling.
I still like the Murphy ones though, used to repair a lot of the old Murphy tv's armed with the diagram and an instabillity probe!....001uf ceramic stuck on the end of a toothbrush handle, Murphys always seemed to be a high gain set. and would go off on one without much persuasion.

Lawrence.

[Skywave]

I think Panasonic and Sony made by far the worst......

Agreed.

Sony made a lot of good stuff but as you say the Japanese diagrams weren't the best. Their instruction books were even worse.

Agreed again + it was the translations that used to give me a wry smile. We had a word for it: "Japlish".

Al.

[Andrewausfa]

Murphy radio ones are quite good, particularly the component layout diagrams where the connections are numbered.

I have found this very useful on occasion where I remove a component, forget to clip the connections up and then get called away to dinner or something.

Andrew