[captainmoody]

When I lived in AZ in the early seventies, The tv shop near my house on campbell road had an Admiral that caught fire in the customers home causing some minor smoke damage to the house.
The tv didn't do as well, The cabinet and chassis were pretty charred, I remember the owner of the shop telling me it had something to do with the instant on circuit.
I never liked the tube heaters partially on, And would switch off or defeat that feature on any of my sets. The problem I saw was the pc board getting brittle way too early around the tube sockets on those admiral sets especially, and decreased crt life, Maybe it's just me, But it seemed like we were always replacing picture tubes on those type of tv's.
My boss made it a point to tell the customers to keep that feature shut off.
My motorola TS915's have the switch on the back.
After using any of my sets I also shut off the power strip that they are plugged into.
Some of the Zenith sets from the late sixties and early seventies would torch themselves when the damper tube socket would arc around the insulator on the bottom and catch the plastic on the surrounding wires as well as the socket on fire, But those sets weren't instant on.
We had a few come in the shop like that, And were insurance totals.