My First Zenith

[Tomcomm]

My wife dragged it home from a garage sale in 1996 for $35. I fixed the remote and got a picture with no ant. Since I had no interest in TVs at the time it just sat disconnected in my office collecting dust. I finally fired it up on a test DVE disc thru a modulator a couple of days ago and got a bright, fine detailed picture with accurate color and near perfect focus! Well that got me interested in learning more about it.

Its a 25in Zenith System 3 made in Springfield, Missouri in April 1986. The CRT is A63AAX02X with a backward cap R sticker which makes it Japanese, right? The screen is stripped like my Sony Trinitron and probably has inline guns. When I took the back off, the CRT has NO convergence assembly like the Sony, just three purity rings stacked together! The yoke has only the usual 4 wires, so no dynamic convergence in here.? The ultor is a single conductor, so no electrodynamic convergence like the Sony Trinitron. I thought the Trinitron was hard to understand but this Zenith thing is spooky!

The plug in assemblies are noted as follows:
Video output 9-467-01
Main module 9-518
SM pwr supply 9-520-02
Tuner 175-2277-01

So what do the Zenith Gurus make of this. Its got 10yrs of main TV use, then retired for 13yrs and still produces a picture as good as any of my analog TVs with the obvious exception of the Sony PVM1334 super-fine pitch pro monitor.

Photos presented in last page of AudioKarma, Early Color Television :
"I've been blessed! #139" http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/sho...124126&page=10