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which chassis was the best ?
Who built the best SOLID STATE color chassis ?
Rules: Must be US or Canadian made. ( we will do Jap sets later) Can have a tube for HV rectifire but otherwise solid state. Any screen size. Any age. If you dont remember the chassis # describe it. Rate one as best but also comment on the best from other makers. Also indicate if you are/were a pro or hobbyist or both. Lots of commentary encouraged Please dont forget the little guys like Philco, Warwick, W-G etc. From an old pro & arm chair hobbist. 1) The Zenith flat chassis. You will have to pry the 22-5001 caps out of my cold dead hands. Physicaly the ultimate in quality & dont fall short on anything else. In a category by itself. Honorable mentions: Admiral M30 ? chassis. Super clean modular chassis, underrated. Put in a Zenith jug & you got an awesome pix. Just when Admiral started making great sets again they were put down Magnavox C-1 chassis. The two board chassis, early 80's. A pleasure to behold both inside & the pix. Even the cheap models looked as good as any. NEVER junked one....... 73 Zeno |
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Zenith by far made the BEST solid state color sets hands down(flat chassis). Someone will chime in a chassis number
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I'd like to see an example of a SS Admiral set. I have a NOS remote and sensor kit for models with the RA suffix. |
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Also the 25DC58 and the 25EC58. ALL of these have the VRT transformer power supply.
RIGHT below these are the 25DC57 and 25CC5. They do NOT have the VRT--instead series pass regulation. Otherwise--they are just like the 25DC56 set. |
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RCA XL-100, CTC-68. I have two. Easy to service, and outstanding performers.
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M50, IIRC, was the last decent one, with a VRT power supply and it often was used in digital tuning models. Then there was the M25 set--it had series pass regulation, and was "kinda " a flat chassis, but all modular. I had one about 31 years ago, in an Airline set. The M30 was like the M25, but with a VRT transformer for magnetic regulation instead of series pass. |
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And let's not forget the RCA "flat chassis" sets. CTC 40, 44, 47.
While not QUITE up to the Zenith quality--they are NOT bad. MUCH better than most other sets at the time. And the Magnavox 'flat chassis " sets, the T979 and T989, deserve "honorable mention" too. As does the VERY rare Sylvania E01 and E02 sets. I have only seen ONE, in my lifetime. A flat chassis SS set, 1971, 1972. |
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I neglected to mention, my remote is ultrasonic with a RAT keypad, so yep, digital tuning.
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as the hybrids using the shielded 150-??? SIF/det/ soldered in assy. Changed to an upright card style pcb ( 9-???). And maybe some day we will find the truth on the mysterious B line chassis...... 73 Zeno |
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flat chassis zenith,rca ctc68,sylvania d-16,magnavox t995,sylvania e-45,zenith vertical chassis,g series,sylvania e-48.these were all good performers.the sylvanias were plentiful here so i saw many of them
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All aforementioned Zenith, RCA and the Magnavox T995 BUT... don't forget the Philco "Boss" Chassis 2CY90, 3CY90,
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Another one on my bucket list, a Star System set. A 19" screen set with the T991 would be great too.
Last edited by Jon A.; 05-20-2014 at 12:42 PM. |
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i have the first star system.t995 set with bicentennial cabinet and remote.25v crt and it looks and plays like new
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I have three of the updated-style Star System remotes. I was looking for one for quite some time, then three came along a very short time apart.
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Last edited by andy; 11-20-2021 at 04:02 PM. |
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