Very rare Sovjet color tv set Rubin 401

[Telecolor 3007]

The thing that I like the most at Soviet tv's is that they had a transformer. The rest of the Europeanen tv's didn't had... so the risk of getting "fried" was bigger. The main reason for which the hadn't where 1) the transformer was to hard to built; 2) In some Western countryes, if the tv's where lighter (those transformers where heavy) you could carry more tv's into a container; they simply sacrificed the saftey! In Sweeden, the tv's didn't have a transformer, but if the phase (don't know if this is the term) of the electricity supply network was conected to the chassie, the tv didn't turn on!; the tv only turned on when the electronic network was conected to the phase of the supply network; so, if you touched the chassie, you didn't got "fried".

yagosaga: just curios, in the '70's and even the '80's did you still got D.C. on the electric supply network?