Here's a circa '71-'72 23" Teledyne/Packard-Bell hybrid (or, multi-state, as PB calls it) color console that is part of the load of TV's that came back with me from SC. I've done very little to this set except test it and it has a hard short somewhere in the chassis, as it trips the circuit breaker instantly. I did check the CRT and it test very strong. I tried to find an EIA code on the tube; but, couldn't make it out. Somehow, the labeling looks like an RCA tube. The cabinet is cheap particleboard and it's very plain in design. Also, this set does not have auto degaussing; rather, degaussing is done by pressing the "ICP" button on the front of the set.
Whatever is shorted in this set must be a common problem because we found at least two other PB consoles from the same era that tripped the circuit breaker shortly after turn-on. Like I said, I havent really worked on this one; but, I suspect a shorted cap or diode. I have not even checked to see what Sam's it's in. I wonder how the picture was on these models.
07-08-2010, 03:59 PM
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