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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
I don't know about yours, but the speakers on my Zenith IS-4041 had a nameplate at the lower right corner of the grille cloth that stated "Allegro 100 by Zenith."
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Mine didn't have the speakers when I bought it second-hand, but I know it came with Allegro speakers from either a newspaper ad or a photofact I once saw.
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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
BTW: Wow! That must have been some huge short in your family's 19" Zenith System 3 TV if the pushbutton power switch "blew up" and shot sparks. (I hope your mother was and is OK, that she wasn't shocked or injured.) Those switches don't normally handle very much current (the power switch probably only energizes a relay and the degaussing coil, as is common in most TVs made in the last 15 years or so), which is why I suspect some large component must have shorted the power supply or the HV supply directly to ground. Whatever it was, as I said, it must have been a huge short drawing a tremendous amount of current (I'm surprised the fuse didn't blow) if the power switch was destroyed and there was a large amount of sparking.
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Thankfully, no one was hurt, and from what I remember we put the set out on the following garbage day. I was around 18-19 when it happened and immersed in fixing up cars. I can tell you this - mom used to have TVs repaired, we had a CTC-40 for almost 20 years with little service needed. The set that replaced it was another RCA, purchased in 1987, a 25" color set with a remote - it had 5 or 6 thin silver buttons on the lower right of the cabinet lip that pushed straight down. That set gave us a lot of trouble (it would turn itself on at full volume in the middle of the night, often picking up trucks' CB radios) and was discarded about a year before the Zenith. When the Zenith "blew up," I don't think she felt like spending any more money trying to fix "these new TVs."
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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
That System 3 TV you describe sounds to me (from your description) like a large-screen set Zenith marketed in the '70s or early '80s...
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It was a 19" tabletop in a woodgrained plastic cabinet, non-remote, purchased originally for my little brother when we discarded the CTC-40 - this would have been between 1987 and 1989. The control panel was only about 1 inch high, right above the CRT, all the buttons were inline with each other. There was 1 through 0, enter, channel up & down and volume up & down - very small rectangular buttons (I think the number buttons were square.) The power button was the furthest to the right, rectangular but larger than the rest. There may have been a door at the bottom housing the color/crt controls, but I am not sure.
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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
Late '80s to 1994 sounds to me like an awfully short life span for your family's Zenith TV. I have a Sentry 2 that's nearly 14 years old and still works almost as well as when it was new (it still has its original CRT as well).
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Yeah, I think we just went through a bad streak. Mom used my 19" B&W '77 Zenith for a couple of years after that, then I gave her my '85 Magnavox 19" color (with digital tuning - not cable ready.) The Maggie developed a problem with the tuner in 2003, and my brother bought her a brand new set. I put the Magnavox on the curb in 2004 when I downsized my storage, and the looters after Katrina busted the CRT in my B&W Zenith
