Worst Cataract - can you top this?

[DavGoodlin]

"BTW, I have seen one with Paralell heater circuitry having two heater transformers and the heater circuitry are fused in each set of circuitry. and it also have the On-Screen Tuning Bar that two tuning bars will joining into one each time the fine tuning is adjusted." - 1993ctc175

IIRC - There are two filament transformers on the "back deck" which protrudes out from the chassis under the CRT socket. All the pots are located there also. That does explain the 6GH8's used as opposed to the 5GH8 seen in the RCA CTC22 and 36.

I also need to see if that tuning feature exists, but I do not remember it. Maybe the CP88B48 had it, but not my CP88A19. I attached the Consumers Reports for the year these were sold is amusing at best. It seems the Motorola and Westinghouse were the two most expensive sets. Have a look at the "Color TV Repairs" section. I'm guessing RCA and Sears did poorly due to over-use of service contracts, maybe the same is true for Packard Bell and Curtis Mathes (these are almost non-existent in this corner of the US), which brands everybody seems to be aware of anyway.

I will open it up this weekend and post some photos. Attachment 172877

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