Arclight-MCP-Bot: Create PVM-1380 from Sony operating instructions

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Create PVM-1380 from Sony operating instructions

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{{CRT model
|brand=Sony
|model_code=PVM-1380
|market=USA
|series=PVM
|crt_type=Professional monitor
|form_factor=Standard
|screen_size_in=13
|aspect_ratio=4:3
|tvl=250
|height=36.6 cm
|width=36.55 cm
|depth=40.85 cm
|weight=11.5 kg
|tube_type=Trinitron
|mask_type=Aperture grille
|pitch=0.6
|deflection_angle=90
|av_system=NTSC
|frequency=50Hz,60Hz
|power_max=86
|speaker_type=Mono
|speaker_watts=1W
}}
The '''Sony PVM-1380''' is a 13-inch NTSC Trinitron professional video monitor. Sony's operating instructions describe it as using a "New black-tinted Trinitron picture tube which absorbs most ambient light and improves picture contrast remarkably", together with a New PanFocus gun for sharp focus across the whole screen.<ref name="oi">Sony PVM-1380 Operating Instructions, Sony Corporation. https://archive.org/details/sony_PVM-1380_Operation_Instructions</ref>

The tube is 13 inches measured diagonally with 90-degree deflection and a coarse 0.6 mm aperture grille pitch, giving a resolution of 250 TV lines at a fixed 9,300 K colour temperature.<ref name="oi" /> Horizontal linearity is ±8% and vertical linearity ±10%, with a line pull range of ±500 Hz horizontally and −8 Hz vertically and zooming of less than 5%. Input return loss is better than 35 dB at 4 MHz.<ref name="oi" />

== Features ==

This is a simple composite-only monitor with no RGB, component or Y/C capability. Two groups of loop-through connectors, LINE A and LINE B, each take composite video on a BNC and audio on a phono jack; a front-panel LINE A/B button selects between them, with indicators showing which is live.<ref name="oi" /> An 8-pin VTR connector carries video and audio from a VCR on a single cable and is wired in parallel with LINE B, so the two must not be used at the same time.<ref name="oi" />

Rather than automatic termination, each line has a manual 75-ohm termination switch — set to ON when the VIDEO OUT connector is unused and OFF for a loop-through connection. Up to ten monitors can be daisy-chained this way, with only the last one terminated.<ref name="oi" />

Front-panel controls are conventional rotary types: HUE, COLOR, BRIGHT and a PICTURE control that adjusts contrast, colour intensity and brightness together in the proper ratio, plus a sliding VOLUME control and an earphone jack for private listening.<ref name="oi" /> Audio output to the internal speaker is rated at 1 W.<ref name="oi" />

== References ==
<references />
{{CRT voltage range
|voltage_min=120
|voltage_max=120
}}
{{CRT input
|label=LINE A
|signal=Composite (CVBS)
|connector=BNC
|count=1
|audio=Mono
|audio_connector=RCA (connector)
|location=rear
|notes=Composite 1 Vp-p ±6 dB, sync negative, unbalanced, switchable between 75 ohms and high impedance. Audio is −5 dBs at high impedance. Loop-through to LINE A VIDEO OUT / AUDIO OUT.
}}
{{CRT input
|label=LINE B
|signal=Composite (CVBS)
|connector=BNC
|count=1
|audio=Mono
|audio_connector=RCA (connector)
|location=rear
|notes=Identical to LINE A, and wired in parallel with the VTR connector — the two must not be used simultaneously.
}}
{{CRT input
|label=VTR
|signal=Composite (CVBS)
|connector=EIAJ-8
|count=1
|audio=Mono
|audio_connector=EIAJ-8
|location=rear
|notes=Sony 8-pin VTR connector carrying composite video and audio on one cable, in parallel with LINE B. Sony offered the VMC-3P, -5P and -10P cables for it.
}}
{{CRT output
|label=LINE A VIDEO OUT
|output_type=Video
|signal=Composite (CVBS)
|connector=BNC
|count=1
|location=rear
|notes=Loop-through of LINE A VIDEO IN; set the LINE A 75-ohm termination switch to OFF when used.
}}
{{CRT output
|label=LINE B VIDEO OUT
|output_type=Video
|signal=Composite (CVBS)
|connector=BNC
|count=1
|location=rear
|notes=Loop-through of LINE B VIDEO IN.
}}
{{CRT output
|label=LINE A AUDIO OUT
|output_type=Audio
|signal=Analog mono
|connector=RCA (connector)
|count=1
|location=rear
|notes=Loop-through of the LINE A AUDIO IN jack.
}}
{{CRT output
|label=LINE B AUDIO OUT
|output_type=Audio
|signal=Analog mono
|connector=RCA (connector)
|count=1
|location=rear
|notes=Loop-through of the LINE B AUDIO IN jack.
}}
{{CRT output
|label=Earphone
|output_type=Audio
|signal=Analog mono
|connector=3.5mm TRS
|count=1
|location=front
|notes=Front-panel earphone jack for private listening.
}}

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