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Been workin on quasars since about '81. That one in Captain Moody's post is a TS-915, Moto's first SS set that orig. in '67. It marked a return to RGB drive to the crt and good dc restoration. A variation of this is the 21" TS-919 in a table top cab. that uses the same modules as the 915 except sans drawer - the modules are on a flat slide out fold down chassis kinda like first gen Zenith chroma - only not. These sets have only a coupla ic.'s and a ton of fairly generic type xstr's - even the hot's are nothing special. They are fairly reliable and can make a good picture when tuned up - the agc - noise gate adjustments are real interactive though. There is also a resistor in the brightness control ckt. that goes bad alot. I'm starting to see alot of leaky old Motorola transistors on the IFpanels lately. Next up is the TS-929, 931, 934, 938 series sets. These are also known as "Quasar II". These are easy to spot as they are a 4 tube hybrid set with a completly new set of modules and a lot of changes during it's life span. The oddest being the TS-938 that borrowed it's vert. and horiz. modules from the TS915/919 chassis and had no tubes and a completly solid state switching power supply, the first one I remember seeing in a domestic set. These were kinda rare even 25 years ago - I got One!The final Motorola Quasar series was the TS-94x sets. These had a whole new module complement and were probably the most reliable. I've got a 942 port. with no back i use as a module tester. Actually all my Quasars see some duty as module testers. This series of sets was in production when Matsushita took over. I haven't kept up with those later sets. I've actually been collecting these things for about 20 years. Why? No idea. (well, they were plentifull at one time)
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