Zenith hospital set

[radiotvnut]

Go to about the 20 minute mark and you'll see a 1980's Zenith hospital TV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFYwO6i6RkI

I think Zenith used this same basic control layout for their hospital sets for years, starting with the 9-160 module, then the 9-186 module, and then the 9-470 module. Since this one has the dark tint CRT and newer Zenith logo, I feel like this one has the 9-470 module. After this series of TV's, they introduced those crappy "new horizons" and "health view" sets with the short-lived CRT's.

The last older Zenith hospital set that I saw in use locally was back around 2003 and it looked like either a 9-160 or 9-186 style set, with a very tired tube. It seems like as long as they'd show a picture, the hospitals kept running them (no matter how bad they looked).

Back in the mid '90's, I had one of the 9-470 versions of this set and I think it was from '90 or '91. Even though the set was only a few years old at the time, it's tube was already starting to get a little tired (that was also about the time when Zenith picture tube quality started to slide downhill).

[Brady_14]

I've seen a few of these still in service at the local hospital, hiding up in the ICU.

[zeno]

There were still 9-160 sets running fine 15 yrs ago when I did a one
week stretch in CCU.
Also had RCA CTC175 & they all had soft CRT's.
Replacements were Maggy LCD sets probably about 24" 4:3.
Those looked terrible even brand new. Rather watch the soft RCA"s !
The arm mounted sets were all 9" Zeniths with the last real Zenith
9" chassis. All the old Sony & Toshiba 5" were gone, very worn out.

73 Zeno
LFOD !

[radiotvnut]

Originally Posted by zeno

There were still 9-160 sets running fine 15 yrs ago when I did a one
week stretch in CCU.
Also had RCA CTC175 & they all had soft CRT's.
Replacements were Maggy LCD sets probably about 24" 4:3.
Those looked terrible even brand new. Rather watch the soft RCA"s !
The arm mounted sets were all 9" Zeniths with the last real Zenith
9" chassis. All the old Sony & Toshiba 5" were gone, very worn out.

73 Zeno
LFOD !

A former TV repairman friend was telling me that, within the last year, he had a heart attack and had to be hospitalized. He said the TV in his room was an RCA CTC175 with a very tired CRT. I've seen some of the flat panel TV's in some of the rooms (I think they were Samsung sets) and they didn't look so great.

[zenith2134]

I can remember a time, not too long ago, where every hospital tv was a Zenith System 3 in the NYC area. Brooklyn, in particular. At one point, I could even rattle off the CRT number when visiting someone in the hospital and would remark that I had the same chassis and/or tube in one of my daily watchers at home.
Lots of 9-160 models and 9-181 models, made circa 1981-1984. These must have been BIG sellers in the five boroughs of NYC back then. I have found dozens at the curb and many are still in service in the wild.

The things seem to be nearly as longlasting as the Chromacolor II delta CRTs but the focus tends to go softer earlier. Still, they make a superb image usually and are rarely found as a dead set. No color "bleeding" that I have seen either.

I really wish we could make a set as good as a sys 3 these days. In a lot of ways, one of the last bulletproof sets.