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I fixed up a 1974 panasonic solidstate set with instant on for a friend of ours last year. Had power supply problems. Its been his daily watcher ever since and he loves it. He said its been a great tv and it only went into the shop 4 times! (well, thats alot of times, he thought that was good service!) All times have been power supply problems. When I took the back off, the power supply board was so burnt. All the wire wound resistors were toast and the board was discolored. Its funny, the parts I replaced were probably the ones someone else replaced the last 4 times! You could tell as the solder joints were lousy. filter caps were bad too. I dont think instant on is that great of a feature. Its more problems waiting to happen. I have a 1966 rca victor portable b/w with wireless wizzard remote. It too has instant on for the sake of keeping power to the remote chassis and tubes. Luckily when I found that one, it was like new. The orig. owner must have always kept it off.
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