which chassis was the best ?
 

Who built the best SOLID STATE color chassis ?

Rules:
Must be US or Canadian made. ( we will do Jap sets later)
Can have a tube for HV rectifire but otherwise solid state.
Any screen size.
Any age.
If you dont remember the chassis # describe it.

Rate one as best but also comment on the best from other makers.
Also indicate if you are/were a pro or hobbyist or both.
Lots of commentary encouraged :banana:
Please dont forget the little guys like Philco, Warwick, W-G etc.

From an old pro & arm chair hobbist.

1) The Zenith flat chassis.
You will have to pry the 22-5001 caps out of my cold dead hands.
Physicaly the ultimate in quality & dont fall short on anything else.
In a category by itself.

Honorable mentions:
Admiral M30 ? chassis.
Super clean modular chassis, underrated. Put in a Zenith jug & you got an awesome pix. Just when Admiral started making great sets again
they were put down:tears:

Magnavox C-1 chassis.
The two board chassis, early 80's.
A pleasure to behold both inside & the pix. Even the cheap models
looked as good as any. NEVER junked one.......


73 Zeno:smoke:

Zenith by far made the BEST solid state color sets hands down(flat chassis). Someone will chime in a chassis number

25DC56 :) (Mine :D)

I'd like to see an example of a SS Admiral set. I have a NOS remote and sensor kit for models with the RA suffix.

Also the 25DC58 and the 25EC58. ALL of these have the VRT transformer power supply.

RIGHT below these are the 25DC57 and 25CC5. They do NOT have the VRT--instead series pass regulation. Otherwise--they are just like the 25DC56 set.

RCA XL-100, CTC-68. I have two. Easy to service, and outstanding performers.

I have come across a few in the past. ALL of the following were cold chassis sets.

M50, IIRC, was the last decent one, with a VRT power supply and it often was used in digital tuning models.

Then there was the M25 set--it had series pass regulation, and was "kinda " a flat chassis, but all modular. I had one about 31 years ago, in an Airline set.

The M30 was like the M25, but with a VRT transformer for magnetic regulation instead of series pass.

And let's not forget the RCA "flat chassis" sets. CTC 40, 44, 47.

While not QUITE up to the Zenith quality--they are NOT bad. MUCH better than most other sets at the time.

And the Magnavox 'flat chassis " sets, the T979 and T989, deserve "honorable mention" too. As does the VERY rare Sylvania E01 and E02 sets. I have only seen ONE, in my lifetime. A flat chassis SS set, 1971, 1972.

I neglected to mention, my remote is ultrasonic with a RAT keypad, so yep, digital tuning.

IIRC the other change was audio. The C lines had the same audio
as the hybrids using the shielded 150-??? SIF/det/ soldered in assy.
Changed to an upright card style pcb ( 9-???). And maybe some day we will
find the truth on the mysterious B line chassis......

73 Zeno:smoke:

flat chassis zenith,rca ctc68,sylvania d-16,magnavox t995,sylvania e-45,zenith vertical chassis,g series,sylvania e-48.these were all good performers.the sylvanias were plentiful here so i saw many of them

All aforementioned Zenith, RCA and the Magnavox T995 BUT... don't forget the Philco "Boss" Chassis 2CY90, 3CY90,

Another one on my bucket list, a Star System set. A 19" screen set with the T991 would be great too.

i have the first star system.t995 set with bicentennial cabinet and remote.25v crt and it looks and plays like new

I have three of the updated-style Star System remotes. I was looking for one for quite some time, then three came along a very short time apart.

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