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I think the CTC130 came out around late '85 or '86. And, yes, it did give more problems than the older RCA's. It was still a decent chassis; but, not quite as good as some of the older ones. The power supply did give trouble and I've seen some with shorted HOT's due to loose connections in the MTT tuner module. I've seen the 130 in higher end 20" sets as well as 25"/26" console and table models. The 130 was still in production when Thomson took over. To be fair, I've seen more 130's than 121's. The 121's that I saw usually needed simple repairs like connections in the tuner resoldered or shorted diodes in the power supply (probably due to lightning). There was also a CTC120 chassis that was used in lower end sets that was around at the same time as the CTC121. The only thing I've seen bad on a 120 was the main B+ filter cap, shorted HOT's, and a shorted cap going from the HOT collector to ground. Of course, there were always loose tuner connections on the models with electronic tuning. There was the CTC136 that was used in lower end 19" sets from about '87 to around '91. Really, all RCA chassis were decent until around '92 when Thomson introduced the CTC175/76/77 series with the tuner made onto the main chassis. Every one of these developed loose ground connections around the tuner shield. They were pretty good sets after the ground connections were repaired. It's only been in the past few years that RCA TV's really went downhill.
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05-11-2008, 08:56 PM
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