[Heath] Farewell, GR-2000

[DTerry8123 at aol.com]

I couldn't have said it better than John. I still have a Heath GR-371  
Color TV which I built in the fall of 1971. It is still functional. I had  
coveted the Heath 25 in.sets for about 2 years when I was finally able to afford  
one.
 
After leaving the Navy in 1970 and being hired by Coulter Electronics as  
their bench tech in Atlanta, I finally felt that I could buy one. It took 
about  40 hours assembly time to complete the kit. As with John, there were no  
errors, but there were two intermittent problems that the local heath store 
was  able to help me correct after I convinced them that the problems were 
real. The  first was with the audio. The sound would fade out and in while 
watching the TV.  This turned out to be a defective transformer on the sound 
board. After I  demonstrated this to the tech at the store, they gave me a 
new transformer. The  other problem was a defective tuner strip on the 
mechanical tuner for channel  11.
 
Over the next 40 years, all that I replaced were the filter caps in the  
power supply and some of the power supply diodes. I did however experience the 
 problems with the transistor and IC sockets that John mentioned. That was 
the  only weak point.
 
Until the early 1990's, the picture quality matched the best sets I  saw in 
the stores. At this time it is sitting in my workshop in my  basement. It 
will probably suffer the same fate as John's TV. At least I still  have my 
AR-3 receiver, V-6 VTVM, SG-8 Signal Generator, IT-11 Capacitor Checker,  
AJ-30 tuner and a few other Heathkits.
 
Dan Terry
Former Senior Field Service Engineer, Beckman Coulter Inc.
 
 


























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