Magnavox T809-14 chassis 19" color TV

[radiotvnut]

Back in the mid '90's, I had a motel version of this set with the earlier T809 with the tripler. IIRC, I replaced a leaky voltage regulator transistor to cure a loss of horizontal sync. I used that set for a few years until it developed loose connections on the motherboard where the regulator module plugs in. I resoldered the connections; but, it wasn't long before the power supply went "poof" and I junked the set.

Most of these that I encountered had shorted safety capacitors, loose connections, or problems on the horizontal and power supply boards.

A friend of mine had one of these sets that would blow the regulator transistor and other parts every two or three weeks. His brother worked for Magnavox and took the set in to the factory service center for repair. They determined that the mother board was "breaking down" and arcing, causing the parts failures. They threw the set in the trash compactor and gave my friend a new (at the time) 25C5 chassis set.

Even though I fixed a good many of these, I still am not a big fan of these sets. I'd much rather have a Zenith or RCA from the early to mid '70's. OTOH, my family had a 19" Magnavox with the 19C1 chassis (the chassis that replaced the T809) and that set saw heavy use over the 12 or 13 years that we had it. It still played when we got rid of it; but, the CRT was just about gone.