View Full Version : 1987 Electrohome model 48CC13


Jon A.
11-22-2014, 03:53 PM
Set is long gone. Merely dusting it out caused vertical failure.

dishdude
11-22-2014, 04:12 PM
Was that set made by Mitsubishi?

Jon A.
11-22-2014, 04:49 PM
Yup, they took over making Electrohome sets in 1984.

zeno
11-22-2014, 05:32 PM
Yessah nice MGA made set with the bluish CRT. In later years
MGA's became more popular but IMHO the ones from
the early 80's were there best. Newer ones just a decent set.......
They never gave us grief at he bench, came out lookin good
& never came back. What else could one ask for ?

73 Zeno:smoke:

radiotvnut
11-22-2014, 06:39 PM
I don't think I've ever seen a weak Mitsubishi CRT. The main ones I hated, and eventually stopped taking in, were the late '80's-early '90's sets with the bad electrolytic capacitors that liked to leak juice all over the board and eat up the PC board traces.

Electronic M
11-23-2014, 01:41 AM
Yessah nice MGA made set with the bluish CRT. In later years
MGA's became more popular but IMHO the ones from
the early 80's were there best. Newer ones just a decent set.......
They never gave us grief at he bench, came out lookin good
& never came back. What else could one ask for ?

73 Zeno:smoke:

I don't remember if it was MGA or MCA, but one professor I took last year had bought a hybrid set new form one of those brands and put an obscene number of hours on it (like leaving it on all night every day 365) for decades, and a year or two before telling me of it gave it away, still working fine, to a neighbor. There is a part of me that really wants one after hearing that. You wouldn't by chance be familiar with any hybrid chassis under one of those brands would you?

Jon A.
11-23-2014, 02:03 PM
I don't think I've ever seen a weak Mitsubishi CRT. The main ones I hated, and eventually stopped taking in, were the late '80's-early '90's sets with the bad electrolytic capacitors that liked to leak juice all over the board and eat up the PC board traces.
I hope this one isn't recent enough to do that.

Another thing I like about this set is the LED channel readout and the full RAT keypad on the set. Using the up and down buttons just starts it scanning anyway. I never cared for OSD with the exception of the Magnavox Star.

I'd like to have some older MGA remote sets for sure. Of course I have a couple of MGA ultrasonic remotes, a three-button and a six-button.

zeno
11-23-2014, 04:20 PM
I don't remember if it was MGA or MCA, but one professor I took last year had bought a hybrid set new form one of those brands and put an obscene number of hours on it (like leaving it on all night every day 365) for decades, and a year or two before telling me of it gave it away, still working fine, to a neighbor. There is a part of me that really wants one after hearing that. You wouldn't by chance be familiar with any hybrid chassis under one of those brands would you?
Dont recall a hybrid MGA & dont remember a MCA brand.
Out of the Jap hybrids JVC, Panasonics & Toshibas seemed to be
the best, the others just didnt make the cut.

73 Zeno:smoke: