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Originally Posted by DaveWM
hey old coot, how did the color of the brand new 25AP22's compare to the brand new roundies back when new?
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I hope you don't mind me chiming in but I can answer. The phosphor was the same in the later roundie and early 23V tubes such as when RCA came out with their "Hi-Lite" series. You take an RCA CTC-16X next to a '17 and you would get that quote: "glorious lollypop color" (thank you Sandy!). With the exception of added pincusion circuitry you're practically looking at the same chassis design.
Granted, Pincusion Correction would not always be perfect, and some sets were worse than others and mostly noticable at the top of the raster with words scrolling upwards.
Even the clone chassis's were converted to support the 25AP/XP22 tube for many TV brands. I worked on a lot of those sets in which I would have been proud to have called my own!
IMHO RCA was really on top of the their game before they got crazy with 6GH8's!