Sony KV 5000/5100 Differences?

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Originally Posted by andy

Econoquick means there is no instant on circuit. Sony claimed to have improved the warm up time for their CRTs which no longer needed an energy wasting instant on supply, but I've never compared the cold start time. As far as I know the 5" CRT was the only one with directly heated cathodes.

This is good to know. I always equated "Econoquick" as the instant on feature VK members talked about in other threads of this forum. ie: short life etc.