Panasonic color hybrid

[zenith2134]

Hey all,

A fellow VKer gave me a bunch of tv's the other day and I thought I'd start by posting about this one. It's model CT-26, has instant-on, sliders for color tint and volume. screen size is about a 13" maybe a bit larger? I will post pix when I open her up and see what she needs.

Must be a rare one though, I never seen a tube Panasonic color set and a search of the net turned up zero.

[radiotvnut]

That sounds like something from the late '60's or early '70's. I had a 13", a long time ago. I've also had a couple 19" versions along with a 19" Bradford that was a re-badged Panasonic. Around here, I really have not found that many pre-early '80's Panasonics.

[zenith2134]

Hey man, thanks for the quick reply. I just popped it open for a quick look. Until I can post pictures tomorrow I can share the tube compliment: it's got
3cu3 hv rect.,
30ae3 damper,
29kq6 horiz output,
25hx5 v-out,
12fq7 v-osc,
9jw8 h-oscil,
11Ly6 / 12by7 vid out,
16a8 audio out,
9aq8 g-y,
9aq8 b-y r-y
.... crt is 320rb22

now I gotta clean the black crap off my hands from pulling all the tubes. this one needs a bath for sure. will post back.

[zenith2134]

snapshots in bad lighting for now

[jpdylon]

I used to have the 16 inch model. They put out great pictures when they work right. A bit of a PITA to work on though....

[Sandy G]

Somebody here, I think, a few years back, had a Panasonic 7" SS color set that I thought was about the cutest thing...Looked like a 15 or 16" tabletop set that had got throwed in the wash & shrunk...Looked to be from the late '60s-early '70s...Wish I could find one....But exotica like that is hard to come by down here in Hooterville...

[zenith2134]

While this one seems pretty well made overall, I can see what jpdylon is saying about being a PITA to work with... It's all kind of crammed in there...must run very hot. At first glance I thought it was point to point but it's actually on 3 circuit boards. Like I said, I need to do a thorough cleaning inside before I can actually test it out correctly.

[kx250rider]

I've seen a 7" hybrid one, which I kick myself for not grabbing. Those are getting super-rare, as Jordan says they're a nightmare to work on. I remember hating them in the 80s, especially when I'd troubleshoot for 2 hours and find out there was a weak tube you can't get (25HX5 vertical osc/out, for example). I know now with the internet you can get them, but not in 1985. Panasonic and Admiral (remember the 17AF9 tube?), were the kings of oddball tubes that you never had on hand to test swap, and you couldn't get anyway.

Charles

[zenithfan1]

Wow, it's been years since I've seen a set like that. Very cool.

[ctc17]

Cool set. Those are some random tube numbers. I dont remember coming across to may '9's.

[zenith2134]

It needs a 29KQ6. Otherwise it works pretty well. And it did make a nice picture when I hooked it up to a converter box briefly.

[jpdylon]

I think I have a spare or two from when I had that set. Lemme look around here

[zenith2134]

Wow, thanks man! Much appreciated.

[AUdubon5425]

If jpdylon can't find them I have one in my stash.

[Jeffhs]

That Panasonic TV was a good set in its day. One look at the front panel on yours and I was sure I had seen this model of TV before. I knew someone years ago who had this very set; it worked very well, and the picture wasn't half bad. The person lived in a city about 65 miles southwest of Cleveland, but they were still able to get decent reception from the three VHF network stations using just the TV's built-in antennas. UHF wasn't that much of an issue in those days (early 1970s) since Cleveland only had two UHF stations at the time (one of them a low-power educational channel), but I do remember the pictures on all three major networks (VHF channels 3, 5, and eight in our area) being perfectly watchable. This TV must have had a very sensitive tuner to have pulled in every station in town so well with rabbit ears, as most folks in northeastern Ohio any appreciable distance outside the greater Cleveland area at that time had large to huge fringe-area antennas, some of them on rotors and mounted on towers.