CTC-120 ColorTrak

[zenith2134]

recently acquired a few tv's and this is one of them.

It's a 1984 model, 19" (19VLNP22, RCA) with the LED readout tuner/keypad but a hard switch for mains power and volume. (non remote set)

Very good picture. The greyscale/kine. bias was slightly off but it looks awesome now . I am actually a huge fan of 80s RCA colortraks (from about ctc-89 to 140).

Only issue with this one is the tuner module..it has some video noise in the form of waves (sound getting into the picture) until it warms up. I had this happen on a ctc-97 with a similar MTT module box...had to reflow tons of tiny connections inside it and also clean up the ground-plane wiring and stakes on the IF subboard.

Somewhere in the net there was a bulletin saying that the multi-section can capacitor at the back of the 120 chassis has to be changed out. Apparently, one of the sections gets excessively leaky.

Pics soon