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Originally Posted by maxhifi
Got this a few days ago from forum member Gregb - Thank you! It's a bit new for his collection but right up my alley.
1965 RCA Victor TC3656 23" black and white console.
Works great - all original inside. Has some replacement tubes, but not too many. The plate cap for the horizontal output broke off when I moved it, so had to re-solder. High voltage is 15kV, which should be about right. Picture tube tests excellent, Twin 4" speakers give a quasi stereo effect I quite enjoy. Also the EL84 audio output is a nice touch.. the one in this TV is even a Mullard. Linearity and focus are good. I hooked up a VCR to see if I could get it to work, and ended up just sitting and watching a movie, rather than playing with the TV.
I'm looking for service data because despite how well it works, I want to change caps and give it a tune-up. Despite not being a collectible set, this will be great for what it was made for - i.e. watching TV. Especially fitting to have it in my workshop room to watch videos of other guys fixing old TVs on YouTube.
Any chance this crosses to a KCS number which I can get a sams for? I tried regular sources without luck.
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It's similar to a KCS136, later production. RCA seemed to make that chassis for about five years running, with minor changes.
Ours had 3 stages of lower-gain IF, different AGC tube and circuitry and just a 6AQ5, audio output. The damper tube was a novar and right next to the horiz output. The horiz out and the vert osc/out were novars, as well.
The first production used octal tubes and a 5U4, 1962????.
They were as good as the Zenith and Motorola offerings at the time.
